Letter to an unknown soldier
Subtitle: if you could write a letter to a First World War soldier, what would you say?
By: edited by Neil Bartlett and Kate Pullinger
Edition: William Collins paperback edition.
Publisher: William Collins
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780008127251
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Miscellanea; Imaginary letters
Other titles: If you could write a letter to a First World War soldier, what would you say?
Description: In a year of public commemoration 'Letter to an Unknown Soldier' invited everyone to step back from the public ceremonies and take a few private moments to think. Providing a space for people to reconsider the familiar imagery we associate with the war memorials - cenotaphs, poppies, and silence - it asked the following questions: if you could say what you want to say about that war, with all we've learned since 1914, with all your own experience of life and death to hand, what would you say? If you were able to send a personal message to this soldier, a man who served and was killed during World War One, what would you write?The response was extraordinary. The invitation was to everyone and, indeed, all sorts of people responded: schoolchildren, pensioners, students, artists, nurses, serving members of the forces and even the Prime Minister. Letters arrived from all over the United Kingdom and beyond, and many well-known writers and personalities contributed. Opening on 28th June 2014, the centenary of the Sarajevo assassinations, and closing at 11 pm on the night of 4 August 2014, the centenary of the moment when Prime Minister Asquith announced to the House of Commons that Britain had joined the First World War, this book offers a snapshot of what people in this country and across the world were thinking and feeling about the centenary of World War One.
Notes: Originally published: 2014.