Intimate Letters from France: During America's First Year of War (Expanded, Annotated)

During the First World War, more than eighteen thousand Red Cross nurses served with the Army and Navy Nurse Corps. Elizabeth Ashe was one of them and was Chief Nurse of Children's Bureau Department of Civil Affairs American Red Cross.

She found her team overwhelmed with babies and orphan children who were injured, sick, and ill-cared-for. But they rose to the occasion.

Ashe also spent time caring for wounded soldiers and saw first-hand the horrors of the Great War. She saw and heard the bomb...