Robert Smith Literary agency » David Slattery-Christy https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:58:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Mildred on the Marne: Mildred Aldrich, front-line witness 1914-1918 https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/authors/mildred-on-the-marne-mildred-aldrich-front-line-witness-1914-1918/ https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/authors/mildred-on-the-marne-mildred-aldrich-front-line-witness-1914-1918/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:55:35 +0000 http://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/?p=1468 Within weeks of reserved 61 year-old American journalist, Mildred Aldrich, retiring in 1914 to live quietly in a small hill-top house near Paris, she was to have a grandstand view of the first bloody battles of World War I in the Marne Valley. The author skilfully weaves Mildred’s own published and unpublished words into his […]

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