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Brothers in War is the immensely powerful and deeply tragic story of the Beechey brothers- and how they paid the ultimate price for King and country. All eight went to fight in the Great War on such far-flung battlefields as France- Flanders- East Africa and Gallipoli. Only three would return alive. Even amid the carnage of the trenches- it was a family trauma almost without parallel. Their wives and sweethearts were left bereft- their widowed mother Amy devastated. It is a tragedy that has remained forgotten and unmarked for nearly 90 years. Until now.Kept in a small brown case handed down by the brothers youngest sister- Edie- were hundreds of letters sent home from the front by the Beechey boys: scraps of paper scribbled on in the firing line- heartfelt messages written from a deathbed- exasperated correspondences detailing the absurdities of life in the trenches. From it all emerges the remarkable tale of the lost brothers.Tragic and moving- poetic in its intensity- Brothers in War reveals first-hand the catastrophe that was the Great War; all told through one family forced to sacrifice everything....