Trench Knives and Mustard Gas / With the 42nd Rainbow Division in France - Thompson, Hugh S., Ferrell, Robert H.
with the 42nd Rainbow Division in France
KORTE INHOUD
Trench Knives and Mustard Gas: With the 42nd Rainbow Division in France is the memoir of a soldier on the front lines of World War I. Hugh Thompson’s memoirs of his time in France demonstrate a keen eye for detail and a penchant for philosophy. Thompson combines the fast-paced prose of the jazz age and the passionate observations of an engaged intellectual. Originally serialized in the Chattanooga Times in 1934, this newly edited version allows the author to tell his story to a whole new generation. Thomspon takes the reader on an intense journey with the 168th regiment of the 42nd Rainbow Division through the villages, towns, battlefields, and hospitals of France. He points out the sights along the way and has a knack for compressing a complex reflection on life into a single sentence. Severely wounded in his arm and back, Thompson reassesses his situation after visiting comrades who lost arms or legs. “I went back to my tent,” he recalls, “almost ashamed of my own lucky wounds.” Homesick for the States duri...
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2004Uitgever: Texas A & M Univ Pr205 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1585442909ISBN-13: 9781585442904Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2004, 205pp, hardcover met stofomslag, goed exemplaar [Auteur: Thompson, Hugh S., Ferrell, Robert H.] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Texas A & M Univ Pr] [Jaar: 2004] [Titel: Trench Knives and Mustard Gas / With the 42nd Rainbow Division in France]
