This is my sister's book about our great aunt, Alice O'Brien, who wrote amazing letters home to her family in Minnesota while she worked for the Red Cross in France during WWI. Alice was a hoot, and my sister Nancy, a historian, is the perfect person to edit and annotate her story. I can't wait to read the final version of this book!
Later: This is so good. Having the historical notes helps ground the letters in the wider movements of the battles in the spring of 1918, and Alice's details are gripping. What an amazing perspective this provides. Those cigarettes as gifts to soldiers in the hospital, though! Yikes! ( )