Letters From Patrick: Letters Of Life And Love From An R.A.F. Pilot-Bombardier To The American Actress, Claire Luce
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
In the shadow of the Second World War, a young RAF Pilot-Bombardier named Patrick poured his heart onto paper in a series of intimate letters addressed to Claire Luce, the celebrated American actress — a correspondence that chronicles not only the brutal realities of wartime service but the enduring, desperate power of love across great distance. Letters from Patrick presents an extraordinary collection of personal letters that chart the emotional landscape of a man caught between the machinery of war and the deeply human need for connection, tenderness, and hope. These letters stand as a remarkable primary document of the wartime era, offering an unfiltered window into the soul of an ordinary man thrust into extraordinary circumstances, his words made all the more poignant by their recipient — a woman of fame and grace on the other side of the Atlantic. The correspondence captures the tension between public spectacle and private longing, between duty and desire, leaving the reader to wonder: in a world being torn apart, can love, written in ink and carried across an ocean, be enough to hold two lives together?
Author: -
Format: Hardback
Published: 1965, Chilton Books, A Division of Chilton Company Publishers, Philadelphia / New York
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
In the shadow of the Second World War, a young RAF Pilot-Bombardier named Patrick poured his heart onto paper in a series of intimate letters addressed to Claire Luce, the celebrated American actress — a correspondence that chronicles not only the brutal realities of wartime service but the enduring, desperate power of love across great distance. Letters from Patrick presents an extraordinary collection of personal letters that chart the emotional landscape of a man caught between the machinery of war and the deeply human need for connection, tenderness, and hope. These letters stand as a remarkable primary document of the wartime era, offering an unfiltered window into the soul of an ordinary man thrust into extraordinary circumstances, his words made all the more poignant by their recipient — a woman of fame and grace on the other side of the Atlantic. The correspondence captures the tension between public spectacle and private longing, between duty and desire, leaving the reader to wonder: in a world being torn apart, can love, written in ink and carried across an ocean, be enough to hold two lives together?