Stories and Letters from the Trenches

"Stories and Letters from the Trenches" is a collection of letters written by the soldiers during World War 1. The book describes many features of the various campaigns of the war, the descriptions coming from representatives of widely different classes of society. Unlike the rigid censorship imposed on the allied troopers by their official censors; the letters of Germans in the field show that wide liberty of expression is allowed, with only the names of places, troop divisions, and commanders, and occasionally dates, deleted. The letters from the front include missives penned or scribbled by nobles and members of the royal families, high military officials, authors, Socialists, tradesmen, skilled workmen, and writers.