Letters and Photographs from the Battle Country - 9781936520077

Letters and Photographs from the Battle CountryThe World War I Memoir of Margaret Hall\nAuthor(s): Margaret Hall, Margaret R. Higonnet\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Massachusetts Historical Society, United States\nImprint: Massachusetts Historical Society\nISBN-13: 9781936520077, 978-1936520077\nSynopsis\nIn 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 human remains.\n\nAfter Hall returned to the United States, she wrote a memoir that she shared.