In the summer of 1919 poppies and grasses were already creeping over the shell holes of No Man’s Land. Katherine Shortall visits Noyon and the villages of the devastated north, listening to the women who sheltered in caves under bombardment and watching ordinary life, sabots and all, return to a mangled landscape.
Three brief, moving sketches of recovery in France just after the Armistice. Download the free EPUB.