Author Event: Edward E. Saunders
Member-owner and author Ed Saunders will be at This House of Books on Tuesday evening, August 21, at 5:30. Ed will read from and answer questions about Knapsacks and Roses, Montana's Women Veterans of World War I. After the presentation, Ed will be available to sign copies of this book.
About the Book
On the centennial year of America’s victory in World War I, Knapsacks and Roses tells epic true stories of intrepid and heroic Montana women who served in uniform in that terrible upheaval, mostly in the Army Nurse Corps. Over 200 of these courageous and indomitable women from the Big Sky Country served overseas in war-torn France, enduring terrible and deadly battlefield conditions, or stateside in crowded, understaffed, diseased-filled base hospitals. After the war, the women came home alone, unheralded, and mostly forgotten. Knapsacks and Roses shines the light of honor on these women—and all America's women veterans of World War I—richly deserved and long overdue.
With a foreword by Diane Carlson Evans, nurse, Army Nurse Corps, who directed the effort creating the Vietnam Women’s Memorial in Washington D.C.
Author Biography
The author, Edward E. “Ed” Saunders, is a retired lieutenant colonel, U.S. Army, and ground combat veteran of the Persian Gulf War. Reared in the American West, Saunders directed the effort to create the Yellowstone County [Montana] World War I Women’s Memorial. He previously wrote and published, Sentinels, Yellowstone National Cemetary, From Prairie to Hallowed Ground, A Photographic Journey. He and his wife live in Laurel, Montana.
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