Lyn Macdonald, acclaimed chronicler of World War I, dies at 91
Lyn Macdonald, acclaimed chronicler of World War I, dies at 91 Emily Langer © Family photo Lyn Macdonald was lauded as “the recording angel of the common soldier.” Lyn Macdonald, a self-schooled British historian who interviewed thousands of World War I veterans and trekked across the battlefields where they had fought, collecting her findings in celebrated books that chronicled the Great War from the perspective of the common man and woman, died March 1 at her home in the village of Bottisham, near Cambridge, England. She was 91. She had cancer, said her son Alast...
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