It was if they came from another planet reflected one Suffolk farm worker remembering the arrival of the Yanks in 1944. They took the place by storm! recalled an old lady
- with a twinkle in her eye because more than the place it was the young women they took. The tall courteous big-spending strangers often became the first love & sometimes the love of a life. In Over Here" Jack Rosenthal tells the story of one such romance particularly significant to him as he would become its offspring. Using letters preserved by his mother Rosenthal reconstructs the relationship from the day of its beginning in March 1944 to its culmination in marriage in July 1945. With the stories behind linked weddings the narrative ranges from a dramatic escape after the fall of Hong Kong to the nightmares of the Arctic convoys & is supported by lively insights into the histories & social circumstances of the four families involved."
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Letters from Burma"
- an unforgettable collection from the Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. In these astonishing
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Sixty years after the first ascent of Mount Everest this unique book of letters celebrates in a very personal way this most majestic of mountains. With exclusive access to the private archives of pioneering New Zealand climber George Lowe this is a welcome tribute to an unsung hero. The conquest of Everest in the summer of 1953 was one of the twentieth-century's greatest triumphs of exploration. George Lowe's exploits on the mountain would become legendary. He was one of the lead climbers forging the route up Everest's Lhotse Face without oxygen & later cutting steps for his partners up the summit ridge. In this touching book a trove of unpublished letters from the Lowe collection are brought together for the first time to describe the day-by-day moments of this historic expedition as never before. In clear & elegant prose this is a unique testimony of a superlative human achievement. ...

This revised edition of Tolkiens famous illustrated letters from Father Christmas to his children

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The first ever B-format edition of Tolkiens complete Father Christmas letters including a new introduction & rare archive materials. Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkiens children. Inside would be a letter in strange spidery handwriting & a beautiful coloured drawing or some sketches. The letters were from Father Christmas. They told wonderful tales of life at the North Pole: how all the reindeer got loose & scattered presents all over the place; how the accident-prone Polar Bear climbed the North Pole & fell through the roof of Father Christmass house into the dining-room; how he broke the Moon into four pieces & made the Man in it fall into the back garden; how there were wars with the troublesome horde of goblins who lived in the caves beneath the house! Sometimes the Polar Bear would scrawl a note & sometimes Ilbereth the Elf would write in his elegant flowing script adding yet more life & humour to the stories. No reader young or old can fail to be charmed by the inventiveness & authenticity of Tolkiens Letters from Father Christmas. To mark ten years since the publication of the complete edition of Tolkiens Letters from Father Christmas in 1999 this new edition is the first time the letters have been available in B format. ...

Hernan Cortess Cartas de Relacion written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain provide an extraordinary narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town of Veracruz until Cortess journey to Honduras in 1525. Pagdens English translation has been prepared from a close examination of the earliest surviving manuscript & of the first printed editions & he also provides a new introduction offering a bold & innovative interpretation of the nature of the conquest & Cortess involvement in it. J. H. Elliots introductory essay explains Cortess conflicts with the Crown & with Diego Velazquez the governor of Cuba. ...

18 June 1940 Oh my Margaret You have no secrets from me but I've kept a part of myself locked away always. A part of me that started scratching at the wall the day this other war started that started howling to get out right now the day you ran off to meet your soldier. I should have told you should've taught you to steel your heart. Taught you that a letter isn't always just a letter. Words on the page can drench the sould. If only you knew. Mother Elspeth is fond of saying to her daughter that 'the first volume of my life is out of print'. But when a bomb hits an Edinburgh street & Margaret finds her mother crouched in the ruins of her bedroom pulling armfuls of yellowed letters onto her lap the past Elspeth has kept so carefully locked away is out in the open. The next day Elspeth disappears. Left alone with the letters Margaret discovers a mother she never knew existed: a poet living on the Isle of Skye who in 1912 answered a fan letter from an impetuous young man in Illinois. Without having to worry about appearances or expectations Elspeth & Davey confess their dreams & their worries things they've never told another soul. Even without meeting they know one another. Played out across oceans in peacetime & wartime but most of all through paper & ink Letters from Skye is about the transformative power of a letter
- the letter that shouldn't have been sent the letter that is never sent & the letter the reader will keep for ever.
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Harry Lamin was born in Derbyshire in 1877 & left school at thirteen to work in the lace industry but by December 1916 he had been conscripted into the 9th Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment & sent to war. Harrys letters home to his family describe the conflict with a poignant immediacy even ninety years on detailing everything from the action in battle to the often amusing incidents of life amongst his comrades. Throughout the letters Harrys tone is unwaveringly stoical uncomplaining & good-humoured. Letters From The Trenches" is a fitting tribute to the unsung heroes of the Great War who fought & endured & returned home & the one in six who did not. The letters describe the war through the eyes of those who really lived it bringing the horrors & triumphs to life for the twenty-first-century reader. Edited by Harrys grandson Bill " Letters From The Trenches" tells the moving story of a brave selfless & honourable man who endured everything that the war could throw at him & still came up smiling." ...

This is the moving story of a brave selfless & honourable man who endured everything the war could throw at him. Harry Lamin was born in 1877 & left school at thirteen to work in the lace industry but by December 1916 he had been conscripted & eventually joined the 9th Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment & was sent to war. Harry's letters home to his family describe the conflict with a poignant immediacy detailing everything from the action in battle to the often amusing incidents of life amongst his comrades. This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60 per cent of the author's work & as low as 30 per cent with characters & plotlines removed. ...

With the first publication in this edition of all the surviving letters of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) readers will for the first time be able to follow the thoughts ideas & actions of one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century in his own words. This first volume encompasses his youth his experience in World War I & his arrival in Paris. The letters reveal a more complex person than Hemingways tough guy public persona would suggest: devoted son affectionate brother infatuated lover adoring husband spirited friend & disciplined writer. Unguarded & never intended for publication the letters record experiences that inspired his art afford insight into his creative process & express his candid assessments of his own work & that of his contemporaries. The letters present immediate accounts of events & relationships that profoundly shaped his life & work. A detailed introduction notes chronology illustrations & index are included. ...