Wartime lives revealed in letters home
This excerpt features a 'typical' GI in Italy and France 'wounded nine times'.
Clement Horvath became interested in the war when, as a child in France, he met a badly wounded former member of the resistance. The realisation of the lasting effects of war on ordinary men led to a long term project collecting the letters of servicemen writing home. From hundreds of different servicemens’ letters he has selected a small percentage to …
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