Dearest Mother: First World War Letters Home from a Young Sapper Officer in France and Salonika

by Andrew Baines and Joanna Palmer

John Stanhope Baines, a Winchester classical scholar and young Royal Engineers officer, was on active service in France and Salonika during the First World War. Throughout this time he wrote to his 'Dearest Mother', who had studied classics at Cambridge before being widowed when John was three, and to Honor, his younger sister. The letters give regular updates of his activities in an affectionate, amusing and relaxed way, while disguising the true...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1910294578
• ISBN13: 9781910294574
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Helion & Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"