Mildred Aldrich

A hilltop on the Marne

Hesperus Pr Paperback. A splendid and moving account of the opening days of World War I from a strong-willed American woman living right near the battlefield of the Marne. Her observations and encounters are very much at the personal level with the refugees, the village inhabitants, and the soldiers billeted in her village. Mildred Aldrich is a generous and empathetic individual realizing both the predicament of France being invaded and the young soldiers who want to defend their motherland. She helps in any way she can and has ordinary conversations with the soldiers. In this book one experiences the war on a day-to-day level, where one does not know the outcome and makes due with each passing moment, not discerning what the next hour or day will bring. It is wonderful that she recorded her experiences. (ISBN: 9781843915010). Good.

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ALDRICH, Mildred

A hilltop on the Marne

Houghton Mifflin, 1915. Used - Good. Good hardback 1st Edition. Green cloth with gilt titles on front board and (faded) spine; cloth lightly worn at extremities. Decorative map end papers; page edges darkened; name and date of 1916 inked onto first prelim. Photo:.

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ALDRICH Mildred

A Hilltop on the Marne. Being Letters written June 3 - September 8, 1914. [First US Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Houghton Mifflin Company, Riverside Press, Cambridge MA,, 1915. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece (original captioned tissue guard present), 4 plates and endpaper maps, neat contemporary signature in pencil on frontispiece recto; original green cloth blocked and lettered in gilt and black, gilt back, uncut, boards moderately age-marked else a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter wanting lower half of backstrip and with loss at upper edge of rear panel.. SCARCE. Enser, p.202 (recording the first UK edition of the same year).

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Book number: 50031

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Keywords: military, ww1, wwi, great war, western front, france, marne, aldrich, mildred aldrich