War Classics: The Remarkable Memoir of Scottish Scholar Christina Keith on the Western Front

Christina Keith came from the small town of Thurso on the far north coast of Scotland. Highly intelligent and ambitious, she became a lecturer in Classics at a time when that was still a brave and unusual choice for a woman. Towards the end of World War I she left behind the sheltered world of academia to live and work among soldiers of all social backgrounds as a lecturer with the army’s education scheme in France. She writes with warmth and humor of her experiences. When she and a companion travel across the devastated battlefields just a short time after the guns have fallen silent, her descriptions are both evocative and moving. Christina’s memoir offers a truly fresh perspective on life with the army in northern France.