wartime correspondence
Soldier's mailed missives
Letters, telegrams, and other written communications sent during periods of military conflict.
The term typically evokes letters between soldiers and their families, though it extends to official military dispatches and diplomatic exchanges.
Wartime correspondence often faced censorship, delay, and the constant possibility that sender or recipient might not survive to complete the exchange: His wartime correspondence with his wife filled three shoeboxes.
- telegramsWired text messages
- dispatchesOfficial urgent messages
- coded messagesEncrypted textual communications
- lettersAlphabetic characters or mail
- postcardsMailable souvenir notes
diaries · encrypted messages · troop movements · censored · field reports · newspapers · orders · casualty lists · missing in action · ultimatums · private letters · war diaries · collected letters · archives · memoirs · peace proposals · condolences · delivery
wartime correspondenceopen communication
Unrestricted exchange of information
instant messaging · real-time communication · telephone calls · digital messaging