Amid the Ruins

Amid the RuinsDescription by Alan D. & Donald H. Gaff Hardcover Despite Damon Runyon's iconic status as a fiction writer and reporter, one particular chapter of his extraordinary career has been completely overlooked. During World War I he was an accredited war correspondentwriting a series of dispatches from Europe, he followed the American Doughboys through France, into Germany, and back home. This period marked a monumental transition not only in America's view

as witnessed by second thoughts over his sniper's role

by Ed Skelding

Proctor examines in lucid and evocative detail the role of experts in the war

Horatio Herbert Kitchener rose rapidly in the Army

American journalists hurried across the Atlantic ready to cover it the same way they had covered so many other wars

and the entire imperial edifice is a captivating drama of what might have been versus what was subsequently seen as inevitable

Women were not paid the same wages as men for doing the same work

and nearly 10 million killed

and children who lived and worked in occupied zones

by Michael Burgan

could retaliate in kind) to Saddam Hussein’s gassing of his own people

and yet it has all but vanished from view