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In September of 1918 Rosalie ODonnell, of St. Louis, set sail with her fellow Red Cross team for Europe. She details in her letters home the condition of the POWs as they are released from the German prison camps. She takes the family with her onMoreIn September of 1918 Rosalie ODonnell, of St. Louis, set sail with her fellow Red Cross team for Europe. She details in her letters home the condition of the POWs as they are released from the German prison camps. She takes the family with her on trips throughout Switzerland, France, Romania, Montenegro, Turkey - giving a glimpse of daily life as WW1 comes to an end.While in Chicago and St. Louis her sisters are keeping her abreast of all that is happening with family, friends and the United States. They cover deaths from the Spanish Flu, births and marriages. They follow politics, baseball, strikes, fashion, European royalty, troops coming home from war, the womans vote, as well as all the things that made life enjoyable in those years.The letters unfold history as it was actually happening, as seen by the eyes of those who were living it at the time. It is not a dry history book filled with facts and figures. It is a child dying of the Spanish Flu. It is the story of the first American POW being released from the German prison camp. It is the story of the Red & White Russian army on a snowy Christmas. It is hope and dreams. Family members teasing each other over the long miles away.They are extremely well written as all three sisters attended college even though they were the daughters of Irish emigrants. Girls who had lost their St. Louis policeman father at a young age. Their mother provided for them as a seamstress - but more importantly she kept laughter in their lives. She died in 1913 but the memories are still there in their letters to each other.The letters will make you laugh, cry, groan, and say, I didnt know that!. The World After WW1 1918: 1921 Volume 1 by Julie Chitwood
