"Life in the War Zone" is the memoir of author Gertrude Atherton about her visits to different war fronts during the First World War. Atherton had spent many years in Germany and still had friends there, but her initial sympathy for Germany in 1914 was erased by the German attack on the Lusitania. In 1915 Atherton voiced her anti-pacifist beliefs in the columns of the New York Times. Her book, "Life in the War Zone," is based on her articles that appeared in the Times in July through September 1916. She sums up her motive thus, "There are so many kind hearts and intelligent minds among the readers of a newspaper like the Times that I have not attempted to be eloquent or to make a sentimental appeal. I have merely endeavored to make the case as clear as possible in the hope that all who can afford to give one dollar, or many thousands out of their new prosperity, will respond to the far subtler appeal of the distant soldier suffering in grateful silence for 'The Eternal France.'"