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Last Letters from Stalingrad (German: Letzte Briefe aus Stalingrad) is an anthology of letters from German soldiers who took part in the Battle for Stalingrad during World War II. Originally published in West Germany in 1950, the book was translated into many languages (into English by Anthony G. Powell in 1956), [ 1 ] and has been issued in ...
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers is a 1991 American short documentary film directed by Bill Couturié. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short . [ 1 ] It shows footage from World War I , World War II , the Korean War , the Vietnam War and the Gulf War , overlaid with readings of letters from US troops fighting ...
When Andrew Carroll’s family home in Washington, DC, burned down in 1989, no one was hurt, thank God. A distant cousin, James Carroll Jordan, heard of the conflagration and called to check in ...
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam is a 1987 American documentary film inspired by the anthology of the same title, directed by Bill Couturié.The film's narration consists of real letters written by American soldiers, which are read by actors, including Robert De Niro and Martin Sheen.
The 300-letter collection detailed the love between soldier Gilbert Bradley and his lover -- who signed the letters with the initial "G". Decades later it was discovered that his pen pal's name ...
The Bixby letter in the Boston Evening Transcript. The Bixby letter is a brief, consoling message sent by President Abraham Lincoln in November 1864 to Lydia Parker Bixby, a widow living in Boston, Massachusetts, who was thought to have lost five sons in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Her letters and their record of her military experiences were discovered more than a century after her death in a relative's attic in 1976. [ 2 ] : 37 Wakeman's letters were subsequently edited and published by Lauren Burgess in 1994 as An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, alias Pvt. Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment ...
Patton's words were later written down by a number of troops who witnessed his remarks, and so a number of iterations exist with differences in wording. [21] Historian Terry Brighton constructed a full speech from a number of soldiers who recounted the speech in their memoirs, including Gilbert R. Cook, Hobart R. Gay, and other junior soldiers ...