Ed Klekowski, Libby Klekowski

Edith Wharton and Mary Roberts Rinehart at the Western Front, 1915

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By 1915, the Western Front was a 450-mile line of trenches, barbed wire and concrete bunkers, stretching across Europe. Attempts to break the stalemate were murderous and futile. Censorship of the press was extreme--no one wanted the carnage reported. Remakably, the Allied command gave two intrepid American women, Edith Wharton and Mary Roberts Rinehart, permission to visit the front and report on what they saw. Their travels are reconstructed from their own published accounts, Rinehart's unpublished day-by-day notes, and the writings of other journalists who toured the front in 1915. The present authors' explorations of the places Wharton and Rinehart visited serves as a travel guide to the Western Front.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 387g
• ISBN-13: 9781476667461
• ISBN-10: 1476667462
• Artikelnr.: 49560190

Autorenporträt

For years, Ed and Libby Klekowski have spent time in a farmhouse in Lorraine, exploring the nearby villages and forests for the artifacts of war. Their discoveries were the basis of two hour-long American Public Television documentaries on World War I. They live in Leverett, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Preface Introduction 1.
Mrs. Rinehart Goes to War 2.
In Flanders Fields Without Poppies 3.
Visiting the Deadly Lake 4.
Back and Forth Across the Channel 5.
Mrs. Wharton's War 6.
Back to Paris, Then Perhaps On to Nancy 7.
The Vosges, Then Flanders 8.
Alsatian Tour 9.
Summing Up Epilogue Chapter Notes Bibliography Index