Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

My father, 21, standing out in a field in France, February 1945. He writes a caption to the photo: “I hadn’t had a haircut in three months. ...

“The Paris Apartment” by Kelly Bowen is the second book recommended on the Historical Fiction Book Lovers Facebook site to take me back to F...

I’m reading “The Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah . It’s the story of two sisters in a small French village occupied by the Nazis. The elder s...

I’ve always been fascinated with Paris in the 1920s and 30s. The inter-war period. The tensions of those years add pizzaz to any book. So ma...

Some negative reviews have come in for Netflix's remake of  "All Quiet on the Western Front." They all say the same thing, tha...

An April issue of UK’s Autocar featured the Renault Dauphine in its list of "22 Totally Charming Cars."  It showed a still life p...

"La Petite Fadette" is a novel by George Sand published in 1849. I'm reading it now after watching a 1915 silent film, "F...

A remembrance for what once was called Armistice Day and now Veteran’s Day. My paternal grandfather, Raymond Arthur Shay, enlisted in the ...

From Metro News in the U.K.: As we approach the centenary of the Armistice on November 11, the Imperial War Museum has released a rec...

Florence Green (a.k.a Mudder) celebrated her 26th birthday in France in 1918. Normally, being in your twenties in France and celebrating a...

December 26  Happier today than I have been for some time, got a letter from Peany and such a sweet one too, also one from E with a handker...

November 16, 1918  Got up at 6am breakfast in our room, got a taxi and made our train 6K, arrived at Chaumont 3pm. Found on arriving, P had...

On Oct. 24, 1918, nurse Florence Green ("Mudder" to her grandchildren) received orders to go to Evac 8 on the Meuse-Argonne fron...