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Marcel's lettersCarolyn Porter

Marcel's letters

Carolyn Porter
2017352 pages
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"A graphic designer's search for inspiration leads to a cache of letters and the mystery of one man's fate during World War II. Seeking inspiration for a new font design in an antique store in small-town Stillwater, Minnesota, graphic designer Carolyn Porter stumbled across a bundle of letters and was immediately drawn to their beautifully expressive pen-and-ink handwriting. She could not read the letters--they were in French--but she noticed all of them had been signed by a man named Marcel and mailed from Berlin to his family in France during the middle of World War II. As Carolyn grappled…

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3 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2018
    Skyhorse · 352 pages · 9781510739079
  • Other · English · 2017
    Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated · 352 pages · 9781510719347
  • Other · English · 2017
    Skyhorse Publishing · 344 pages · 9781510719330
CorrespondencePrisoners of warFrench Personal narrativesMilitary HistoryFrenchDaimler-Benz AktiengesellschaftConscript laborWorld War, 1939-1945