Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from March, 2022

An American Father-Daughter Story in WWI: Book Release

As follow-up to the posting of Don Martin's WWI war dispatches and diary entries on this blog, a book has been published titled "IN THEIR OWN WORDS: Writings of war correspondent Don Martin and his 11-year-old daughter Dorothy. An intimiate view of WWI." It is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Here is a description of the book, which appeared on the Doughboys Foundation website in March 2022 ." On my mother’s death in 2001 at age 94, I came into possession of family records from the World War I era. My grandfather, Don Martin, whom I never met, had died in France while serving as a war correspondent; a poem written about him was titled “Soldier of the Pen.” I found original letters he wrote to his daughter (my mother) and letters from her to him. Also, there were my grandfather’s diaries for 1917 and 1918, and letters of condolence upon his death from Spanish influenza in October 1918, including from Commander-in-Chief John J. Pershing. My mother had t