The edited and published letters of Eleanor (Nora) Saltonstall, a young lady from Boston's upper-class society, chronicle her wartime experiences in France from 1917 to 1919. These letters were neither produced in a void nor presented to the reader that way. Editor Judith Graham does an admirable job of contextualizing Saltonstall's war service by using her diaries and other materials to provide a complete picture of Nora Saltonstall, her thoughts, motivations, and her actions.