Mildred Aldrich

"A Hilltop on the Marne" is a masterpiece, because the woman who wrote it, left by her own intrepidity virtually in the midst of the world's greatest battlefield, was able to record vividly, simply and accurately her impressions of the titanic drama staged around her.

This author was a journalist who moved to Paris just months before the outbreak of World War I. She published four collections of her wartime letters to friends: A Hilltop on the Marne, On the edge of the war zone, The Peak of the load, and When Johnny comes marching home. This volume (the final set) is a collection of letters that describe her experiences in the months immediately following the end of World War I.