Keeping tabs on authors in LINKcat: Lyn Macdonald

 

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New York Times, 5/8/2021

In 1973 Ms. Macdonald was a producer for the BBC who was given what she thought would be a one-off journalistic assignment: to accompany a group of World War I veterans from a British rifle brigade on a final pilgrimage to the battlefields of France.

As it turned out, it was the start of a project that would span decades. 

The trip led to a book, “They Called It Passchendaele,” published in 1978, and then six more. Those books turned some 600 interviews recorded over 1,500 hours, along with letters and diaries, into a popular trove of firsthand narratives chronicling the war through the voices of veterans in all their conflicting passions — from revulsion to pride to comradeship.

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