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Letter To An Unknown Soldier - If You Could Write a Letter to a First World War Soldier, What Would You Say? (Paperback)
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Letter To An Unknown Soldier - If You Could Write a Letter to a First World War Soldier, What Would You Say? (Paperback)
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Loot Price R434
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On Platform One of Paddington Station in London, there is a statue
of an unknown soldier; he's reading a letter. On the hundredth
anniversary of the declaration of war everyone in the country was
invited to take a moment and write that letter. A selection of
those letters are published here, in a new kind of war memorial -
one made only of words. 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.
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