Sue’s Reviews > In the Fields and the Trenches: The Famous and the Forgotten on the Battlefields of World War I > Status Update

Harry Truman to his wife: I was in the most famous war town.. in France today....Trees that were once most beautiful..are stumps with naked branches sticking out making them look like ghosts... When the moon rises behind these tree trunks...you can imagine that the ghosts of the half-million Frenchmen who were slaughtered here are holding a sorrowful parade over the ruins.

"There are some nice things about aviation, really," Quentin [Roosevelt, Theodore's son] wrote. "It seems to be the one part of war in which brother Boche...has the instincts of a sportsman and a gentleman." When an airman was shot down--on either side--he was given a military funeral... Baron von Richthofen the German ace [the Red Baron], was brought down by the English. They buried him with full...honors...

the sources involved are varied: Marie Curie's daughter Irene, who assisted her with her x-ray stations on the front; a German officer who kept a battlefield photo record of his time in the war; Teddy Roosevelt's children's participation; an American cowboy who became a British flying Ace etc.

views of WOW in the words of people who were there