Love letters of great WWI

With Love from the Battlefield is a collection of real love letters exchanged during the First World War between soldiers serving on the front and the people they loved back home.

These letters reveal a different side of war—not through generals, politicians, or official histories, but through the voices of ordinary people trying to hold on to love, hope, intimacy, and a sense of normal life in the midst of uncertainty and violence.

By bringing these personal letters together, Mandy Kirkby captures a deeply human dimension of wartime experience that is often absent from traditional historical narratives. Some letters are filled with hope and anticipation; others become especially poignant when we know that their writers never returned home or never saw their loved ones again.

With Love from the Battlefield is a book about war, but even more, it is about love, longing, separation, and the human need to remain connected to someone we care about—even when thousands of miles and a battlefield stand between two people.