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Behind the Lines: Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters---And One Man's Search to Find Them

From the editor of the phenomenal "New York Times" bestseller "War Letters" comes an even more powerful, more revealing collection of rare and previously-unpublished letters from every major war in American history — all discovered during Andrew Carroll's extraordinary three-year journey throughout the U.S. and to thirty-five countries around the world."

Subject
history
Audience
adult
Length
long · 501 pages
Form
epistolary

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