Edith Henry's extraordinary life in Revolutionary Mexico

In 1905, Frank Henry a young Cornish tin minor took his wife, Edith and young family to Mexico to start a job as a surveyor in the country's growing and lucrative silver mining industry. The move was supposed to have led to a better life, but their timing couldn't have been worse. Within five years the country was caught up in the violence of the Mexican Revolution. Edith Henry charted the growing unrest in her letters home to her family in Devon. When Edith returned home with her children the letters were stowed in the attic, and the family refused to talk about what had happened. Her granddaughter Julia Swanson, a lawyer in Los Angeles, learnt about the extraordinary tale of her grandparents and her mother through those letters.