the World War I memoir of Margaret Hall
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Higonnet, Margaret Randolph > [ed.]
- Creator
- Solomon, Susan > [ed.]
- Publish Year
- 2014
- Shelfmark
- VS 1F 2014 - B
- Thesaurus
- eerste wereldoorlog, vrijwilligerswerk, briefwisseling, egodocument, fotoboek, Frankrijk, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- In August 1918 Margaret Hall boarded a ship in New York City to work with the American Red Cross in France, then in the grips of the First World War. Working at a canteen at a railroad junction close to the Western Front, Hall aided both Allied and German soldiers. 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.After Hall returned to the United States, she wrote a memoir that she shared privately with friends and family. Published here for the first time, Hall's words offer a first-hand account of life on the Western Front in those last months of the war and its immediate aftermath. Hall's narrative gives the reader an unusually immediate and individualized testimony, one that rivals those of similar but better-known war memoirs, such as those by Vera Brittain and Edith Wharton.The book features dozens of Hall's photographs, including women working just behind the front lines, and the landscape left when the war was 'over.