Excerpt from A Village in Picardy
The history and the work of the Smith Col lege Relief Unit in the Somme is known wher ever reconstruction work in France is spoken of This brief account does not purport to give anything but a small cross-section, the picture of but one of the villages in our care. It is told in the first person to make the tell ing easier. As I have said, of all our villages, Canizy was the most beloved. All the Unit had a share in it.
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Paperback. Zustand: New. Print on Demand. This book recounts the relief efforts of a group of American women reconstructing a French village destroyed during World War I. The author, one of the women, recounts the challenges they faced, the lives of the villagers, and the resilience of both. The book places the horrors of war and the German occupation in the context of everyday life. It captures the spirit of a people resisting oppression and hardship with courage and solidarity. Their story is a testament to the perseverance and indomitable nature of the human spirit in the darkest of times. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781331729792_0
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