WWI Books, Again

Apropos a previous thread, I found I have yet another:

Frances Wilson Huard, My Home in the Field of Mercy (G. H. Doran 1917).

An English (?) woman, married to a Frenchman, she actually wrote three WWI
books. The first, My Home in the Field of Honor (1916), tells of the initial
battles of the war as seen from her home on the Marne river about 60 miles from
Paris. The second, noted above, tells of the conversion of her chateau into a
red cross hospital for most of the rest of the war. The third, "With Those Who
Wait" (1918), obviously takes its title from the last line of Milton's poem, "On
His Blindness".


Francis A. Miniter

The best WWI discovery I made, although not for my own collection, was
a little pamphlet I found when I was working in the cataloging
department of the Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins. It was
entitled: *The Lay of Kossovo: Serbia's Past and Present (1389-1917)*
(London, 1917). Among other things it featured an uncollected essay by
G.K. Chesterton. That chance discovery led me to a whole body of
"Serbophil" literature produced during WWI, which in turn led me to
write an essay for THE CHESTERTON REVIEW, which is reproduced he

http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/...fm?recnum=1003

The notes contain a good start towards a bibliography of English and
American Serbophil literature--although I've discovered much more in
the intervening 11 years.

(I also note that I basically predicted the war in Kosovo about five
years before it happened.)
William M. Klimon
http://www.catholicbookcollector.com