War Letters
Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars

Andrew Carroll created The Legacy Project to honor and remember those who have served this nation in wartime by seeking out and preserving their letters. The non-profit is looking for letters from all the nation’s wars and on any subject matter from eyewitness accounts to family matters. Carroll cho......more

I think I'm in love with Andrew Carroll. I LOVE old letters, I love American history, and I especially love war histories told on a personal level. On top of it all, Carroll dedicated this book to the American women who experienced war both from the home and from the front lines, and who were primar......more

This book should be required reading for all American high school students. This book is about much more than war. It is reading history through the letters of individual Americans.......more

This book does not lend itself to being read word for word. I did read most of it. It works best if the reader browses rather than reading cover to cover. The Editor, Andrew Carroll, founded the Legacy Project with the goal of preserving the letters of service people for posterity. This volume covers......more

Books like this should be MANDATORY reading in schools. Especially in an era of pushbutton wars, where you don't encounter lines for bread, or even see the bodies of the dead soldiers being returned. A heavy, intense and extremely personal collection of letters to and from people 'in the field' You w......more