Format:
Online-Ressource (xii, 205 p., [14] p. of plates)
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ill., maps
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
1299137989
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9781299137981
,
9781603446549
Series Statement:
C.A. Brannen series no. 6
Content:
Originally serialized in the Chattanooga Times in 1934, this newly edited memoir of a solder on the front lines of World War I allows the author to tell his story to a new generation. Thompson takes the reader on a grueling journey with the 168th regiment of the 42nd Rainbow Division through the villages, towns, battlefields, and hospitals of France. Homesick for the States during his first months overseas, Thompson discovers that his platoon has become his second family. He becomes accustomed to the war's distortion of time and values. Friendships form and disappear in the hour it takes a stranger to die. When he is wounded, Germans serve as his stretcher bearers.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Introduction -- Preface to the Original -- On the Way -- Somewhere in France -- Rimaucourt -- The Raid -- The Trenches -- More of Same -- To Bru and Back -- Badonviller -- The Last Trench Days -- Paradise -- Hospital and Home -- Wounded Again -- Recovery -- Home Again -- Preparation -- St. Mihiel -- The End -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-200) and index
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""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Editor's Introduction""; ""Preface to the Original""; ""On the Way""; ""Somewhere in France""; ""Rimaucourt""; ""The Raid""; ""The Trenches""; ""More of Same""; ""To Bru and Back""; ""Badonviller""; ""The Last Trench Days""; ""Paradise""; ""Hospital and Home""; ""Wounded Again""; ""Recovery""; ""Home Again""; ""Preparation""; ""St. Mihiel""; ""The End""; ""Notes""; ""Further Reading""; ""Index""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1299137938
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781585442904
Additional Edition:
Print version Trench Knives and Mustard Gas : With the 42nd Rainbow Division in France
Language:
English