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Back of the Front in France
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
155 pages, Hardcover
First published June 4, 2009
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February 5, 2012
How can you not give a five-star review to a book written by your grandmother? That said, I found myself wanting to re-read "Back of the Front" as I watch "Downton Abbey." My grandmother died long before I was born, so this book offers a tangible way to know something about her through the letters she wrote to her parents back home. It was a gutsy thing she did, to take off for Europe during World War I. She developed a skill for changing flat tires and repairing Lizzie, the car she drove from hospital to hospital delivering supplies and gifts from America to wounded soldiers. I have a feeling she saw more suffering than she wanted to let on, perhaps because a certain reserve was the way people handled emotions back then. But her feelings do come through. ! Toward the end of the book, she writes: "I am so utterly sick from the War! It is a rotten business from beginning to end ...the darkness is so black just now that many people have forgotten that the light exists."
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