Knapsacks and Roses: Montana Women Veterans of World War I

by Mr. Edward E Saunders

On the centennial of America’s victory in World War I, a new nonfiction book about intrepid Montana women who volunteered for the Great War; they served mostly as nurses in the Army Nurse Corps. Facing enemy fire and hostile conditions, while serving an indifferent federal government denying them equal status as the men, these women of the big sky country served with honor and courage in one of the worst conflagrations the world had yet seen. After the war these women came home alone, unheralded, and mostly forgotten. With foreword by Diane Carlson Evans, nurse, Army Nurse Corps, Republic of Vietnam, 1968/69, who helped create the Vietnam Women’s Memorial in Washington D.C., Saunders, a war veteran himself, illuminates these World War I women veterans with their stories and official reports of the day, told among the harsh panoramas of war. A century after their service, Saunders shines the light of honor on these women - and all America's women veterans of World War I - richly deserved and long overdue.

318 pages, Paperback

Published June 1, 2018

Reviews

[Cheryle · Rating 4 out of 5]

History. Tells the story of some of the women who volunteered from Montana to serve as nurses in WWI. There was a lot of material to fill the pages of men who also enlisted or were drafted for the same war which detracted from the main premise.

[Christine Sopko · Rating 4 out of 5]

It presents personal stories from Montana women in world war 1.