Band of Sisters Patches Even before World War I

Even before World War I

A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker

but these 306 soldiers represent a tiny proportion of deserters

The bitter four-month struggle that ensued—known as the Hundred Days Campaign—saw some of the bloodiest and most ferocious combat of the Great War

Text: "America Calls Enlist in the Navy"

Band of Sisters Patches Even before World War IDescription by Lauren Willig paperback A scholarship girl from Brooklyn, Kate Moran thought she found a place among Smiths Mayflower descendants, only to have her illusions dashed the summer after graduation. When charismatic alumna Betsy Rutherford delivers a rousing speech at the Smith College Club in April of 1917, looking for volunteers to help French civilians decimated by the German war machine, Kate is too busy earning her living to even think