Last Letters Home

Briefly profiles fourteen men and women from the U.S. armed forces who lost their lives fighting in Iraq and presents letters they wrote to their families that reveal the experiences and emotions of individuals changed by the perils of battle.

LIFE has long been one of the country's preeminent publishers of periodicals and books, and is renowned for its presentation of photography. This new LIFE volume comes from the team of editors whose ONE NATION: America Remembers September 11, 2001 spent a half year on the New York Time Best Sellers list and was called by the Wall Street Journal "a thorough and thoughtful telling." In the fall of 2004, LIFE, which was originally launched as a weekly magazine in 1936, again began publishing with that frequency.