The Race For Paris by Meg Waite Clayton

Two young women journalists find themselves in a dangerous race to get through the German front and get to Paris for the liberation. They are young and innocent in the ways of war but with the help of a military photographer, they will go AWOL and get to the front to see the war first hand. Fletcher agrees to take them but soon realizes that he has taken responsibility for their lives and placed all of them in a very dangerous situation. He is a little bit in love with the very married Liv and Jane is very much attracted to him. The author brings out all the horrors of war and the intimacy of strangers tossed together in a bad situation. Real people like Eleanor Roosevelt and Ernie Pyle are mixed in with the fictional characters and you get the sense of what it must have been like to be there. You will never think of clean clothes and a real bath in the same way after this.