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 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. Balancing her deeply held convictions about
the horror of this conflict with both wry humor and a sense of
urgency, 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 striking and
never-before-published photographs, including of the movement of
troops through town, women working just behind the front lines, and
the landscape left when the war was "over." The pairing of Hall's
remarkable images with her vivid reporting results in an
invaluable, and uniquely personal, account of one of the most
cataclysmic events in history.
Distributed for the Massachusetts Historical Society
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