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Product Identifiers
PublisherMcfarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
ISBN-101476692645
ISBN-139781476692647
eBay Product ID (ePID)7061474417
Product Key Features
Book TitleServing the Doughboy : Letters of a Ymca Worker in France, 1918-1919
Number of Pages278 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMilitary / World War I, World
Publication Year2024
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorMary Frances Willard
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight12.8 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2023-050692
Number of Volumes1 vol.
Table Of ContentTable of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: The Great War, America, and the Y.M.C.A. in France 1. From New York to Paris 2. Troyes Interregnum: Paris, Pau, and Troyes 3. Le Mans 4. Marseille and the South of France 5. Paris, Northeastern France, and Belgium Bibliography Index
SynopsisMary Frances Willard, a public-school principal from Chicago, was one of thousands of American women who served as welfare workers for U.S. troops in France during World War I. During the war's final months, she operated a canteen and post exchange in Troyes, attended to convalescing servicemen, arranged their burials and wrote letters to their families. After the Armistice, she headed canteen operations in Le Mans for hundreds of thousands of returning servicemen in embarkation camps. In her final months in France, she toured battlefields and the decimated towns along the Western Front. Presented in historical context, her weekly letters home--from August 1918 through July 1919--relate stories of her service to the doughboys and her interactions with French citizens., Mary Frances Willard, a public-school principal from Chicago, was one of thousands of American women who served as welfare workers for US troops in France during World War I. Presented in historical context, her weekly letters home - from 1918 to 1919 - relate stories of her service to the doughboys and her interactions with French citizens.
LC Classification NumberD639.Y7W55 2023
