This book contains a dying soldier’s last letter to his mother; a letter dropped from a bomber above Japan minutes before the atomic bomb hit Nagasaki; and an exchange between the young owner of a pony and the Secretary of State for War, as well as some rather mundane notes from ancient Rome through the 20th century. It contains quite a few gut punches in not so many pages, but it's definitely a worthwhile addition to a study of war literature or world history.

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