The Love of an Unknown Solider by Anonymous – review

Peter Joyce is brilliant at uncovering long neglected gems and making them sparkle. It doesn't matter that mystery surrounds the authorship of this collection of letters written in the trenches by a British first world war officer to the American nurse to whom, during the brief time they had spent together, he had never declared his love. It's a poignant love story, and also a clear-sighted analysis of the reality of war and the terrible devastation caused when decent men are required to kill other human beings.