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A unique civilian eye-view of WW1, depicting, through the letters of a strong-willed American woman living near the Marne battlefield, a fascinating before and after picture of a French community disarray.

Excerpt from Told in a French Garden: August, 1914 IT was by a strange irony of Fate that we found ourselves reunited for a sum mer's outing, in a French garden, in July, 1914. With the exception of the Youngster, we had hardly met since the days of our youth. We were a party of unattached people, six men, two women, your humble serv ant, and the Youngster, who was an out sider. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of th...

Excerpt from The Peak of the Load: The Waiting Months on the Hilltop From the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes to the Second Victory on the Marne Personally, after the uplift the decision gave me, came a total collapse and I had some pretty black days. I had to fight against the fear that we were too late, and the conviction that, if we were really to do our part at the front, the war was still to last not one year but years. An army cannot ...

Excerpt from When Johnny Comes Marching Home The Peak of the Load were edited, no one over here had any hope that the order cease firing would be given on the western front before the spring of 1919. Otherwise that book would have been held back until after the armistice. It had been my intention when the fighting on this front ended so prematurely, to publish none of the letters written to the States after the cessation of hostilities, for ...

Excerpt from On the Edge of the War Zone, From the Battle of the Marne, to the Entrance of the Stars and StripesIt is very silent here most of the time. We are so few. Everybody works. N 0 one talks much. With the cannon boom ing out there no one feels in the humor, though now and then we do get shaken up a bit. Everything seems a long time ago. Yet it is really only nine days since the' French troops advanced - nine days since Paris was saved...

Excerpt from A Hilltop on the Marne: Being Letters Written, June 3 September 8, 1914 This author wishes to apologize for the constant use of the word English in speak ing of the British Expedition to France. At the beginning of the war this was a colloquial error into which we all fell over here, even the French p.ress Everything in khaki was spoken of as English, even though we knew perfectly well that Scotch, Irish, and Welsh were equally w...

9 stories from a 'party of unattached people' against the background of the opening year of the Great War

Letters from the Great War in the summer of 1914

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Based on her experiences in war-torn Europe from the American writer and journalist living in France during World War One.

Based on her experiences in war-torn Europe from the American writer and journalist living in France during World War One.

Based on her experiences in war-torn Europe from the American writer and journalist living in France during World War One.