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Katherine Shortall
Best known for vivid books drawn from her time in postwar France, this early 20th-century writer turned firsthand service into warm, observant storytelling. Her work offers an intimate view of relief work, recovery, and everyday courage after World War I.
2 Audiobooks
Where the Sabots Clatter Again
by Katherine Shortall
A "Y" Girl in France: Letters of Katherine Shortall
by Katherine Shortall
About the author
Katherine Shortall is known for two books available through Project Gutenberg: A "Y" Girl in France: Letters of Katherine Shortall and Where the Sabots Clatter Again. Both draw on her experiences in France around the end of World War I, giving her writing a direct, personal feel.
Project Gutenberg describes A "Y" Girl in France as a collection of her letters about serving with the Y.M.C.A. in France after the war. It describes Where the Sabots Clatter Again as reflections and sketches based on her work with the Radcliffe Unit, which collaborated with the French Red Cross in reconstruction efforts after the Armistice.
Her books are valued today for their close-up view of wartime service and the work of rebuilding afterward. Rather than writing from a distance, she wrote from lived experience, which gives her work its plainspoken charm and historical interest.