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"Three Wonderful Letters from Home" is a World War I song written by Ballard MacDonald & Joe Goodwin and composed by James F. Hanley. [1] The song was first published in 1918 by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. , in New York City.
On the sheet music cover is a group of "greater Vitagraph players" sitting around a table, writing letters. Behind them is a service flag with a red border and one blue star. [2] [3] The song opens with a wounded soldier laying on a cot. He tells a nurse that the only thing that will cure his homesickness is hearing from his "old home town".
The Home Front: Civilian Life in World War One (2006) Dewey, P. E. "Food Production and Policy in the United Kingdom, 1914–1918," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (1980). v. 30, pp 71–89. in JSTOR; Doyle, Peter. First World War Britain: 1914–1919 (2012) Fairlie, John A. British War Administration (1919) online edition
A half-dozen letters home from war, written by Savannahian Jack O'Donnell, survive among writer's mother's keepsakes. Mother's boxes held letters home from U.S. Navy seaman on cusp of World War II ...
After the War (song) After the War Is Over; After the War Is Over Will There Be Any "Home Sweet Home"? All Aboard for Home Sweet Home; Allegiance: Patriotic Song; America, Here's My Boy; America! My Home-Land; America's the Word for You and Me; American Patrol; The Americans Come (An Episode in France in the Year 1918) An Eala Bhàn; And He'd ...
Many of the works during and about the war were written by men because of the war's intense demand on the young men of that generation; however, a number of women (especially in the British tradition) created literature about the war, often observing the effects of the war on soldiers, domestic spaces, and the home front more generally.
The secret romance between a World War II soldier and his male sweetheart emerged more than 70 years later after Mark Hignett, from Oswestry, Shropshire, began purchasing the letters from eBay.
The Great War and Modern Memory is a book of literary criticism written by Paul Fussell and published in 1975 by Oxford University Press. It describes the literary responses by English participants in World War I to their experiences of combat, particularly in trench warfare. The perceived futility and insanity of this conduct became, for many ...