A Hilltop on the Marne Mildred Aldrich 9781438532332 Books
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Short excerpt I've crossed the Rubicon and can return only when I have built a new bridge.
A Hilltop on the Marne Mildred Aldrich 9781438532332 Books
A splendid and moving account of the opening days of World War I from a strong-willed American woman living right near the battlefield of the Marne. Her observations and encounters are very much at the personal level with the refugees, the village inhabitants, and the soldiers billeted in her village. Mildred Aldrich is a generous and empathetic individual realizing both the predicament of France being invaded and the young soldiers who want to defend their motherland. She helps in any way she can and has ordinary conversations with the soldiers.In this book one experiences the war on a day-to-day level, where one does not know the outcome and makes due with each passing moment, not discerning what the next hour or day will bring. It is wonderful that she recorded her experiences.
My volume was published by the DODO press which specializes in out of print books.
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A Hilltop on the Marne Mildred Aldrich 9781438532332 Books Reviews
In June 1914 Mildred Aldrich, an American writer, retired to a farm house above the Marne River. Two months later she was rudely awakened one morning by a picket of British soldiers at her gate, preparing to blow up the bridges across the river below. For the next two days she offered the soldiers and their officers food, water, tea, beds and the comfort of her home and watched from her garden the raging battles in nearby fields. Before the saga ended even German soldiers appeared, admiring her courage to remain in that isolated area and urging her to accompany them to explain the unfamiliar country side.
Equally as gripping as these episodes are her accounts of how she and her rural neighbors coped once their peaceful existence had been disrupted by this brutal war. This vintage and personalized narrative of those terrifying events ranks with the classic literature of World War I. We are fortunate that it has been reprinted.
A splendid and moving account of the opening days of World War I from a strong-willed American woman living right near the battlefield of the Marne. Her observations and encounters are very much at the personal level with the refugees, the village inhabitants, and the soldiers billeted in her village. Mildred Aldrich is a generous and empathetic individual realizing both the predicament of France being invaded and the young soldiers who want to defend their motherland. She helps in any way she can and has ordinary conversations with the soldiers.
In this book one experiences the war on a day-to-day level, where one does not know the outcome and makes due with each passing moment, not discerning what the next hour or day will bring. It is wonderful that she recorded her experiences.
My volume was published by the DODO press which specializes in out of print books.
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