Fighting France
by Edith Wharton
As a nuance in his observations of human behavior, as well as in vivid images of French landscape and architecture, Wharton made full use of her unique position as the wife of Walter Barry, President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris, which gave her unprecedented access to life in the trenches. Sensitive without sentimentality and offering a precious and extremely rare female war perspective dominated by the male perspective, this series of articles is nothing more than an inspiring proof of the power of the human spirit in times of greatest adversity.
