An unique civilian eye-view of the First World War, depicting, through letters, a fascinating before and after picture of a French community in disarray. What looked impossible is evidently coming to pass... ?I silently returned to my garden and sat down. War again! This time war close by ? not war about which one can read, as one reads it in the newspapers, as you will read it in the States, far away from it, but war right here ? if the Germans can cross the frontier. A Hilltop on the Marne is a collection of letters written by Mildred Aldrich, an American expatriate who had bought a c