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About the Author
Andrew Roberts is the author of Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West (which won the International Churchill Society Book Award) and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900 (which won the Intercollegiate Studies Institute Book Award). His other books include Napoleon and Wellington, Eminent Churchillians and Salisbury, which won the Wolfson History Prize. His latest book, The Storm of War, won the British Army Military Book of the Year for 2010. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a PhD in History from Cambridge University and lives in New York City.
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EDITOR’S NOTE:
The letters in this collection were edited for sense. Minor spelling and grammar changes were made.
Material from the troubles in Northern Ireland has not been included in this volume as IWM could not allow access to the archives they hold due to classification and sensitivity surrounding the documents.
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