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Serving the Doughboy: Letters of a YMCA Worker in France, 1918-1919 - Couverture souple

Willard, Mary Frances

 
9781476692647: Serving the Doughboy: Letters of a YMCA Worker in France, 1918-1919
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ISBN 10 : 1476692645 ISBN 13 : 9781476692647
Editeur : McFarland & Co Inc, 2024

Synopsis

Mary Frances Willard, a public-school principal from Chicago, was one of thousands of American women who served as welfare workers for U.S. troops in France during World War I. During the war's final months, she operated a canteen and post exchange in Troyes, attended to convalescing servicemen, arranged their burials and wrote letters to their families.

After the Armistice, she headed canteen operations in Le Mans for hundreds of thousands of returning servicemen in embarkation camps. In her final months in France, she toured battlefields and the decimated towns along the Western Front. Presented in historical context, her weekly letters home--from August 1918 through July 1919--relate stories of her service to the doughboys and her interactions with French citizens.

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À propos de l'auteur

James J. Marquardt, PhD, is a professor of international relations at Lake Forest College in Illinois. He teaches and researches on war and peace, U.S. foreign and national security, and global governance.

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Éditeur
McFarland & Co Inc
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1476692645
ISBN 13 
9781476692647
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
278
Éditeur
Marquardt James J.
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