I read this letter in full: Alberta travels four days along the old front, Rheims to Ypres — vineyards turned to graves, towns erased, ground “choked with” the dead: French, Belgians, British, Americans, and Germans. Clear-eyed, elegant, devastating. Paid subscribers get the complete recording and transcript.
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Prepare to Weep: Alberta’s Most Powerful, Most Moving War Letter - read on Remembrance Day
Prepare to Weep: Alberta’s Most Powerful, Most Moving War Letter - read on Remembrance Day
Alberta’s 28 May 1919 road through war’s poisoned land.
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Exploring the real lives of American heiresses in the Gilded Age — the women who inspired HBO’s The Gilded Age.
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