Her War Story: Twentieth-Century Women Write about War Book

	Preface
Pt. 1	The Great War	1
	Changes for Women
	"Sing a Song of War-time"	11
	"The Cordite Makers"	12
	from Chronicle of Youth: The War Diary, 1913-1917	15
	Women at the Front
	from Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belport	21
	"Conspiracy" from The Forbidden Zone	22
	"Women and Wives" from The Backwash of War: The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse	24
	"Verdun, December-January, 1915"	27
	from Not So Quiet ...: Stepdaughters of War	32
	America Comes In
	"A Honeymoon ... Vive L'Amerique"	37
	"In the Stadium"	39
	from One of Ours	41
	from It's a Great War!	46
	from Shadow-Shapes: The Journal of a Wounded Woman	48
	from The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas	54
	Mourning and Memory
	from The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz	58
	"The Cenotaph"	61
	"The Fly"	62
	"To My Brother Killed: Haumont Wood: October, 1918"	67
	"1919" from Sula	68
Pt. 2	Between the Wars	75
	Trying to Prevent the Next War
	from Peace and Bread in Time of War	82
	from My Part in a Changing World	84
	"Apostrophe to Man"	89
	Women in Spain
	"High Explosives for Everyone"	91
	from My Shadow in the Sun	98
	"Soldiers of the Republic"	104
	"Say That We Saw Spain Die"	107
	Women Against Fascism
	"We Jews"	109
	from Three Guineas	110
	from Let the Record Speak	118
Pt. 3	World War Again	125
	War Around the World
	from "New Faith"	137
	"The First Long Range Artillery Fire on Leningrad" (translated by Daniela Gioseffi with Sophia Buzevska)	148
	from The Danger Tree	148
	"Oh, Madam ..."	157
	Women's War Diaries
	from The Days of Mars: A Memoir, 1940-1946	162
	"Ancient Wisdom Speaks"	166
	from All the Brave Promises	169
	from The Ordeal of Elizabeth Vaughan: A Wartime Diary of the Philippines	184
	from War in Val d'Orcia	189
	from The Past Is Myself	197
	The Unthinkable
	from Letters from Westerbork	217
	"Friendly Meetings" from Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land	219
	"Weiter" from Auschwitz and After	222
	from History: A Novel	223
	"Evacuation," "On the Bus," "Harmony at the Fair Grounds," "Curfew," "In the Outhouse," and "Inside News"	228
	"Blind Chinese Soldiers"	231
	"The Scars Remain"	235
	Victory, Occupation, and After
	from Landlocked	240
	from The Wild Place	248
	"Fife's House"	251
	"Gay Chaps at the Bar"	259
Pt. 4	The Cold War and Beyond	265
	Women in Korea and Vietnam
	from War in Korea	276
	"A New Kind of War"	283
	from "Hanoi"	288
	"That Country"	291
	"The Vietnamese Mother"	292
	from Sensing the Enemy	293
	Women in a Militarized World
	"At first I was given centuries"	297
	"Kathe Kollwitz"	298
	"Prayer for Continuation"	303
	Women Making War
	"El Salvador"	310
	from The Downing Street Years	315
	from A Woman at War: Storming Kuwait with the U.S. Marines	318
	Children in War
	"Song of Becoming"	325
	"One Cannot Kill a Baby Twice"	326
	"No Man's Land"	327
	from Mothers and Shadows	328
	"Madalena Returned from Captivity"	335
	from The Gates of Ivory	337
	Selected Bibliography	345
	Contributors	353
	Sources and Credits	361
	Index	367