Compiled together for the first time in one collection, "Lines Of Fire" presents the political treatises, medical accounts, diary entries, poetry, and letters written by women on both the home-front and on the battlefront during the First World War. Through the words of mothers, nurses, journalists, and soldiers, editor Margaret R. Higonnet provides the varied and often conflicting points of view women held during the war and challenges the traditional definition of "war literature."Included in this vast illustrated collection are: -- "The Refugees" and "Writing a War Story" by Edith Wharton-- "Verdun" by Colette-- "Letter to Captain Bouchardon" by Mata Hari-- "A Driver at the Front" by Katherine Hodges North-- Poetry by Amy Lowell, Marianne Moore, and Beatrice Mayor.