A cache of love letters from the French and Indian War sat unopened for nearly 265 years. Now the letters to French sailors have finally been revealed.

A Union Jack from the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar and a letter written by late Beatle John Lennon are set to go under the hammer during Christie's Classic Week, which starts on July 1. Thomas Venning, ...

World War II veteran publishes book of hundreds of long-lost love letters 04:31. A new book offers fresh insight into life on the frontlines of World War II, through a series of letters written by ...

Love letters, both familial and romantic, were opened for the first time in 265 years at the request of a Cambridge University professor. They were written during the Seven Years' War.

Battle of Britain hero Eric Redfern had just got married when he was shot down and killed by the Germans in 1941. Joan Preston, his wife of just a few weeks, had not known that the letter she ...

On this Valentine’s Day, Europeana is launching a crowdsourcing project to transcribe the text of digitized World War I love letters. by Allison Meier February 14, 2017 February 14, 2017.

Sent between 1757-58 during the Seven Years War, the letters were mostly addressed to the crew of the Galatée warship, and the French postal administration forwarded them from port to port in ...

The 18 letters Bohlin never knew existed, sent by her father to her mother as he served in the U.S. Navy during the war, had been tucked away for more than 50 years in the attic of Bohlin’s ...

Remembering the Death of Maj. Sullivan Ballou Union officer Maj. Sullivan Ballou penned a famous farewell letter to his wife before he was killed the First Battle of Bull Run, 150 years ago.

Historian Andrew Carroll has collected more than 100,000 war letters from every American conflict, including the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War II and Afghanistan. Many are about love.

From war with love: Christmas letters home span centuries but hit same notes. Dec. 25, 2012, 4:59 AM EST. By Bill Briggs. Across three pages — typed on Christmas Eve 1966 from a village in South ...