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Margot Clark-Junkins has worked as an independent curator, art reviewer and art educator for the last 20 years. She attended Mount Holyoke College and received a MA in Design & Curatorial Studies from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. She writes a column called “Following the Front” for Substack and is currently at work on a book of short stories.
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Libraries are acquiring the book for their collections:
"Following the Front" can be found in 60+ libraries across the United States, in Canada, and around the world, including the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Botswana and Australia.
A NetGalley Review:
"The beautifully written reports are interspersed with personal letters to his wife or more casual contacts with the magazine management, and range from his arrival in the UK, transfer to Paris and then experiences on the front and through Germany as the war nears it end. He discusses a wide range of subjects, such as the tensions between the US and its allies, the difference of experience between the British population during rationing and the plenty that the Americans seem to have, and the absolute terror of being caught in battle. He meets and talks to both senior and junior members of the armed forces and many civilians of all nationalities and so we get a very broad idea of life for those involved, fighting or not. Most fascinating to me were the sections depicting the Allied forces moving through Germany as the war reaches its end, including the liberation of Dachau. The complete destruction of some areas of Germany and the relative prosperity of more rural areas, the very mixed reactions of Germans to Hitler and loss and the Allies that some see as liberators, the hatred so many Allied troops felt towards the country and its people, and the range of nationalities moving around Europe following the freedom from camps or slave labour are all brought very vividly to life, as are the absolute horrors of Dachau."