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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 Alastair McNeilage. In an era when the most popular works of military history consisted largely of “big books by blokes about battles” as the British classicist Mary Beard once put it Ms. Macdonald was a notable exception: a woman who delved into the lives of the individuals behind the offensives to become, in the description from the Times of London, “the recording angel of the co

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