Professional Actors Read WWI Letters (Videos)

Peter Capaldi 

Reads a letter from Captain Reginald John Armes to his wife on the Christmas Truce.

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Charles Dart 

Reads a letter to a mother from Corporal W. J. Woolfrey about her son Herbert Wiseman's death in a Belgian battlefield during the First World War.

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 Colin Firth & Taron Edgerton 

Read Rudyard Kipling's letter exchange with his 17-year-old son Lt. Jack Kipling.

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Source:  Letters from World War I: In Their Own Words