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Brothers in War is the immensely powerful and deeply tragic story of theBeechey brothers and how they paid the ultimate price for their country. Alleight went to fight in the Great War on such farflung battlefields as FranceFlanders East Africa and Gallipoli. Only three would return alive. Even amidthe carnage of the trenches it was a family trauma almost without parallel.Their wives and sweethearts were left bereft their widowed mother Amydevastated. It is a tragedy that has remained forgotten and unmarked for nearly90 years. Until now. Kept in a small brown case handed down by the brothersyoungest sister Edie were hundreds of letters sent home from the front by theBeechey boysscraps of paper scribbled on in the firing line heartfeltmessages written from a deathbed exasperated correspondences detailing theabsurdities of life in the trenches. From it all emerges the remarkable tale ofthe lost brothers. «
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