Deliver Us from Evil: A Southern Belle in Europe at the Outbreak of World War I

by Mary Schaller

The harrowing firsthand account of how a European holiday turned into a flight for survival for a U.S. Congressman's daughter

On August 1, 1914, as the Great War erupted in Europe and financial and physical resources were realigned toward the war effort, some 120,000 American travelers scattered across the Continent suddenly found themselves in the midst of a vast warzone without means of escape. Among the stranded Americans was twenty-five-year-old...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157003950X
• ISBN13: 9781570039508
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"