The Uncensored Letters of a Canteen Girl

A collection of candid wartime letters by an American canteen worker recounts daily life with the American Expeditionary Forces in France during the First World War. Written from billets and canteens in provincial towns, the pieces mix practical details of travel, food, and supply work with vivid sketches of soldiers, French hosts, and village scenes, and offer plainspoken reflections on censorship, fatigue, humor, and small acts of kindness. Organized as place-based letter-chapters, the work blends intimate reportage and domestic observation into a sustained portrait of life behind the lines.