A collection of private family letters from WWI that have lain forgotten for almost 90 years, offering a unique, first-hand glimpse into the unfolding experience of the Western Front, in British India and on the Home Front. The Slaters lived in Oxford; Gilbert had been head of Ruskin College and worked as Prof of Indian Economics in Madras during the war; his wife Violet became an increasingly vocal pacifist, and their son Owen, a schoolboy in 1914 was fighting in France by war's end.