1. Ordinary writings, extraordinary authors 2. Archives for an alternative history 3. 'Excuse my bad writing' 4. Literary temptations 5. France: transparency and disguise in the poilus' letters, 1914-18 6. France: national identity from below and the discovery of the 'lost provinces', 1914-19 7. Family, village and motherland in Italian soldiers' writing, 1915-18 8. Italian identities 'from below' and ordinary writings from the Trentino 9. Love, death, and writing on the Italian Front, 1915-18 10. Spain: emergency literacy and the nostalgia of exile, 1820s-1920s 11. Family strategy and individual identities in Spanish emigrants' letters 12. Order and disorder in the 'memory books' 13. Conclusions Bibliography.
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