Liberty Bonds and Bayonets

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 on sale. It was all in the newspapers, a hundred years ago. Read it again, for the first time in a century.