Letter To An Unknown Soldier Book Reviews
Letter To An Unknown Soldier by Kate Pullinger & Neil Bartlett Book Summary
On Platform One of Paddington Station in London, there is a statue of an unknown soldier; he’s reading a letter. On the hundredth anniversary of the declaration of war everyone in the country was invited to take a moment and write that letter. A selection of those letters are published here, in a new kind of war memorial – one made only of words.
In a year of public commemoration ‘Letter to an Unknown Soldier’ invited everyone to step back from the public ceremonies and take a few private moments to think. Providing a space for people to reconsider the familiar imagery we associate with the war memorials – cenotaphs, poppies, and silence – it asked the following questions: if you could say what you want to say about that war, with all we’ve learned since 1914, with all your own experience of life and death to hand, what would you say? If you were able to send a personal message to this soldier, a man who served and was killed during World War One, what would you write?
The response was extraordinary. The invitation was to everyone and, indeed, all sorts of people responded: schoolchildren, pensioners, students, artists, nurses, serving members of the forces and even the Prime Minister. Letters arrived from all over the United Kingdom and beyond, and many well-known writers and personalities contributed.
Opening on 28th June 2014, the centenary of the Sarajevo assassinations, and closing at 11 pm on the night of 4 August 2014, the centenary of the moment when Prime Minister Asquith announced to the House of Commons that Britain had joined the First World War, this book offers a snapshot of what people in this country and across the world were thinking and feeling about the centenary of World War One.
Reviews
‘Anyone reading through this collection will be hard put not to feel the emotion surging through every page… “This memorial is made of voices”. They deserve to be heard’ Daily Express
About the author
Neil Bartlett is a novelist and theatre-director. His 2007 novel ‘Skin Lane’ was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award, and his new novel, ‘The Disappearance Boy’, is being published by Bloomsbury in July 2014. He has two honorary degrees (from Oxford Brookes and Brighton), bestowed in recognition of his pioneering and continued commitment to gay culture and civil rights, and was awarded an OBE in 2000 for his work as Artistic Director of the Lyric Hammersmith. You can find out more about Neil and his work at neil-bartlett.com
Kate Pullinger is a novelist and digital writer. Her 2009 novel ‘The Mistress of Nothing’ won Canada’s Governor General’s Award for Fiction; her new novel, ‘Landing Gear’, is published in April 2014. She has been at the forefront of literary digital innovation and participatory media for more than a decade; her ongoing web projects, ‘Inanimate Alice’ and ‘Flight Paths: a Networked Novel’, have gathered readers from around the world. She is Professor of Creative Writing and Digital Media at Bath Spa University. Find her at katepullinger.com
Book Name | Letter To An Unknown Soldier |
Genre | History |
Author | Kate Pullinger & Neil Bartlett |
Published | 06 November 2014, Thursday |
Language | English |
E-Book Size | 9.28 MB |
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The Letter To An Unknown Soldier book written by Kate Pullinger & Neil Bartlett was published on 06 November 2014, Thursday in the History category. A total of 104 readers of the book gave the book 0 points out of 5.
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