Destiny

Jack Oughtred had gone out to Flanders with the East Yorkshire regiment in 1915 and somehow survived until the end of the war. He had, at a conservative estimate, a dozen brushes with death, and twice returned from leave to find his battalion decimated.

These are love letters, very much of their time, and in places you have to read between the lines. But in Destiny - The War Letters of Captain Jack Oughtred MC, they paint a vivid picture of a middle-class courtship and a brutal war.