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

Edith Wharton and Mary Roberts Rinehart at the Western Front, 1915Description by Ed Klekowski & Libby Klekowski Paperback By 1915, the Western Front was a 450mile 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 extremeno one wanted the carnage reported. Remarkably, the Allied command gave two intrepid American women, Edith Wharton and Mary Roberts Rinehart, permission to visit the front and report on

a bizarre disease appeared in Europe

The National Archive data are summarized by Dr Anne Samson in Part 2 of the book to provide factual documentation to the main memoirs

Eleven thousand casualties suffered–more than during the D-Day invasion of Normandy

even if it means breaking her heart

When the United States finally enters the conflict in Europe

often in abominable conditions

Even more than World War II

which includes The Fall of Paris and To Lose a Battle and tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France and Germany

The Great Rescue is a unique look at the Great War and the diverse lives it touched

and Palestine

a fierce German army is on the other

In late 2007 and early 2008