Edith Wharton and Mary Roberts Rinehart at the Western Front, 1915 Asian History Air Service recruitment poster by

Air Service recruitment poster by artist Keith Warren

and the doctrine that governed naval warfare in 1914

prolifically

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through its humanitarian aid during wars

Edith Wharton and Mary Roberts Rinehart at the Western Front, 1915 Asian History Air Service recruitment poster byDescription by Ed Klekowski & Libby Klekowski Paperback By 1915, the Western Front was a 450mile line of trenches, barbed wire, and concrete bunkers, stretching across Europe. Attempts to break the stalemate were murderous and futile. Censorship of the press was extremeno one wanted the carnage reported. Remarkably, the Allied command gave two intrepid American women, Edith Wharton and Mary Roberts Rinehart, permission to visit the front and report on