Into the Breach, by Dorothy and Carl J. Schneider

Into the Breach: American Women Overseas in World War I, by Dorothy and Carl J. Schneider
toExcel Press, 2000
285 pages plus appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. 8 pages of photos
Library: 940.315 SC

Description
The story of the 25,000 American women who went overseas during the First World War in a variety of functions to aid the war effort and to save lives--often at the risk of their own. Vividly and entertainingly told, the account offers quotes from letters, diaries, written memoirs, novels, and interviews, all of which evoke the exuberance and the despair that these women experienced in war-torn Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. The result is an immensely readable book, a living, breathing slice of Americana.

Although most of these women have vanished completely from memory, the accounts they left of themselves remain to reveal them in all their remarkable diversity. Memoirs, letters, newspaper reports, novels and diaries, from doctors, pilots, photographers,, journalists, interpreters, telephone operators and entertainers tell the story of these neglected veterans of World WAr I.

Table of Contents
Preface
1. The Entrepreneurial War
2. Common Experiences
The Participants
3. To the rescue
-The American community abroad
-Ad hoc organizations
-The American REd Cross
-The American Friends
-College Groups
4. Binding up Wounds
-The Medical Needs
-American Women in Foreign Medical Systems
-American Organizations
-American Medical Women: Who Did What
5. Aid and Comfort
-Canteening
-In Service to Womem - the YWCA
-Books for Sammies
-Trouping for the Troops
6. The Black Record
7. The Hello Girls
The REcorders
8. The Reporters
-Amateurs and Chance Observers
-Journalists on the Western Front
-Reporting the Russian Revolution
9. The Novelists
The Protesters
10. The Women's War Against the War
Conclusion
11. The Front as Frontir
Appendices
1. Numbers of American Women in Europe in war-connected activities (1914-1918)
2. World War I Chronology
Notes
Bibliography
-Fiction and poetry
-Memoirs and biographies
-Organizations
-Reference works
-Women and war
-World War I
Acknowledgments
Index