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Letters and Photographs from the Battle Country: The World War I Memoir of Margaret Hall
Margaret Hall
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Description for Letters and Photographs from the Battle Country: The World War I Memoir of Margaret Hall
Paperback. Editor(s): Higonnet, Professor Margaret R. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: BM; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 644.
In August 1918 a Massachusetts-born woman named Margaret Hall boarded a transport ship in New York City that would take her across the Atlantic to work with the American Red Cross in France, then in the devastating grips of the First World War. Working at a canteen at a railroad junction close to the Western Front, Hall aided soldiers from both Allied and Axis nations. While there she was regularly forced to seek shelter from German bombardments. After the Armistice, Hall explored the destruction of the surrounding region; her diary entries, letters, and photos reveal a world of ruins and ... Read more
In August 1918 a Massachusetts-born woman named Margaret Hall boarded a transport ship in New York City that would take her across the Atlantic to work with the American Red Cross in France, then in the devastating grips of the First World War. Working at a canteen at a railroad junction close to the Western Front, Hall aided soldiers from both Allied and Axis nations. While there she was regularly forced to seek shelter from German bombardments. After the Armistice, Hall explored the destruction of the surrounding region; her diary entries, letters, and photos reveal a world of ruins and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Massachusetts Historical Society
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781936520077
SKU
V9781936520077
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Ref
99-3
About Margaret Hall
Margaret R. Higonnet is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut, USA and an Affiliate at Harvard University’s Center for European Studies. She is the editor of Lines of Fire: Women Writers of World War I and Nurses at the Front: Writing the Wounds of the Great War.
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