Liberty Bonds and Bayonets

A Marguerite Martyn Book

Ranked #84 in Journalists

All this really happened: Clair Kenamore carried a notebook and camera on the Western Front; Marguerite Martyn stayed home with an interviewer's pen and artist's sketchbook. They were husband and wife. World War I forced them apart. Kenamore followed the troops: Doughboy Sammy Goldberg came back from the trenches with seventeen German prisoners. Blond French girls flirted in German with boisterous American troops. Men died. Martyn's imagination soared. Befuddled diners wondered how to get around wartime food regulations. A "lady colonel" harangued from a soapbox. Neglig�e boudoir gowns went... more

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