![]() Setting the stage for such a story requires extensive research. “As they left, the Germans destroyed everything that could be destroyed, poisoning the wells, breaking the plows, sending all the able-bodied to work camps in Germany while sending back the old, infirm, and very young to their devastated villages to be a burden on the French government.” Lauren Willig’s latest novel, Band of Sisters (William Morrow, 2021), explores the true story of the Smith College Relief Fund, a group of American college women who crossed the Atlantic in April 1917 to help the people of the Somme region whose lives had been ravaged by the German invasion of France. To this land comes a small band of college graduates-a band of women inspired by the notion of helping French citizens rebuild their lives. Band of Sisters: Lauren Willig’s True Account of the Triumph of Hope over Hopelessnessġ917 France. ![]()
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