Postcards from the Front.

Cecile says that her life was determined by the two World Wars. She was born directly after the first, her parents' enforced separation spurring them into marriage and parenthood as soon as the armistice was signed.
She herself married in 1946, as did 12 other couples in the village - the highest number of weddings recorded in a year, according to the village archives.
She has a box of postcards; correspondance between her engaged mother and father, and her father and his friends.
Her father sends her cards showing ruined churches in northern France, she sends him cards of local scenes, peacetime scenes, a long way from the action, or sentimental ones like the card above
His friends send him heavy-thighed, voluptuous, naked ladies and crude, but clever cards mocking the enemy.
She lets me read the cards sent between her parents, because she never has;
explaining that she has always resisted, concerned about encroaching on their intimacy.