Postcards from the Front 1914-1919

Postcards as a medium of correspondence became popular in the early years of the twentieth century. The fad soon became a flood as literally hundreds of thousands of postcards found their way into the postal system as the Edwardian era progressed. With the outbreak of the Great War in August 1914, it was only natural that this fad would spill over into the battlefields of the Western Front.

Postcards from the Front 1914–1919 captures the essence of this medium in a unique and fascinating way, bringing to life the pathos, the trauma and the mud and the blood of Flanders and France as the embattled Tommies wrote home to their loved ones. It is a book that humanizes the soldiers, many of whom paid the ultimate sacrifice and never returned home.

Kate J. Cole has a Master of Studies in local and regional history from Cambridge University, a Bachelor of Arts in history, and an Advanced Diploma in local history from Oxford University. She is currently writing about the local history of Essex and East Anglia on her own blog. She has written many local history books on the Essex area for Amberley.