On the Edge of the War Zone

by Mildred Aldrich

...We still heard the cannon they are booming this minute, but we had not seen the spiked helmets dashing up my hill, nor watched the walls of our little hamlet fall...

Mildred Aldrich was born in Providence, Rhode Island. She grew up in Boston, taught at elementary school there and went on into journalism. She wrote for the Boston Home Journal, the Boston Journal and the Boston Herald. She started the short-lived The Mahogany Tree in 1892. In 1898, she moved to France, and, while there, became a friend of Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway and Alice B. Toklas. She worked as a translator near Paris.

During the First World War Aldrich wrote about war-torn Europe.

Genres: Nonfiction, World War I, History

186 pages, Kindle Edition

Reviews

[Jane Oldenburg · Rating 4 out of 5]

This sweet little story was lent to me by a friend. It is a series of letters written during World War I by an American woman living in France. She vividly describes her years of deprivation with laughter and reverie. It’s a little gem off the beaten path.

[Susan Arra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting but a challenging read.