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“thomas alexander boyd”

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  • Through the Wheat

    by Thomas Alexander Boyd ...
    'Through the Wheat' (1923) is a novel by the American journalist, scriptwriter, and novelist Thomas Alexander Boyd (1898–1935).Influenced by his own experiences on the battlefields of France in the First World War, this story follows William Hicks, a rifleman in the U.S. Marine Corps, through his first experience of combat.After enlisting, William Hicks is eager to see combat but as friends die ... Read more

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  • Tanks

    by Murray Leinster ...
    Two miles of American front had gone dead. And on two lone infantrymen lost in the menace of the fog-gas and the tanks depended the outcome of the war of 1932. ... Read more

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  • Suddenly We Didn't Want to Die

    Memoirs of a World War I Marine

    by Elton Mackin ...
    In the tradition of All Quiet on the Western Front, Elton E. Mackin’s memoirs are a haunting portrayal of war as seen through the eyes of a highly decorated Marine who fought in every Marine Brigade battle from Belleau Wood to the crossing of the Meuse on the eve of the Armistice.Praise for Suddenly We Didn't Want to Die“This beautifully written and truly gripping war memoir is a significant ... Read more

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  • Cease firing

    by Mary Johnston ...
    The river ran several thousand miles, from a land of snow and fir trees and brief summers to a land of long, long summers, cane and orange. The river was wide. It dealt in loops and a tortuous course, and for the most part it was yellow and turbid and strong of current. There were sandbars in the river, there were jewelled islands; there were parallel swamps, lakes, and bayous. From the border of ... Read more

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  • Air Men o'War.

    by Boyd Cable ...
    The war above the battle lines of the First World War is brought to life in these tales of the cavalry of the skies. However, by and large, the knights of the air were not much given to self-publicity that their exploits and effectiveness entitled them to. Writing under a pseudonym, Boyd Cable, who spent a year at the front with them, wrote of the feats of his flying companions. From flying ... Read more

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  • Etched in Purple

    by Frank J. Irgang ...
    First published in 1949, Frank J. Irgangs personal record of his unforgettable experiences as a combat infantryman during World War II has its beginning on the dawn of that famous longest day when Allied troops set foot on Normandy beaches. We know the surface facts of that invasionwhat was planned, how it was executed, and what happenedbut what most of us dont know are the thoughts of those brave ... Read more

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  • Stories from the War

    by Stephen Crane ...
    This edition contains Crane's best stories dealing with wars and the military. The extraordinary power of imagination is more wonderful than that of Defoe. It is in dialogue that he is at his strongest, for in this the words are used as the soldiers would have used them. Contents: The Little Regiment Three Miraculous Soldiers A Mystery Of Heroism An Indiana Campaign A Grey Sleeve The Veteran The ... Read more

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  • American Civil War Armies (3)

    Specialist Troops

    by Philip Katcher ...
    Series Book 179 - Men-at-Arms
    A concise illustrated study of the uniforms and organization of the specialist troops on both sides of the US Civil War.At the time of the American Civil War, with two million men under arms, a US Army that in pre-war days had depended upon a minute number of technical troops now required virtually an army of specialists alone.Special sharpshooters were recruited for skirmishing duty; men whose ... Read more

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  • Action at Aquila

    by Hervey Allen ...
    Action at Aquila is a novel about the American Civil War.Colonel Franklin is horrified by the aggressive "hang the rebels" attitude of his neighbours in Pennsylvania. After carrying out General Sheridan's total destruction policy in the Shenandoah Valley Franklin wants no more part of it.In Southern Shenandoah, Franklin becomes friends with a confederate family whose home he had torched at ... Read more

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  • War Experiences and the Story of the Vicksburg Campaign From "Milliken's Bend" to July 4, 1863: Being an Accurate and Graphic Account of Campaign Events Taken From the Diary of Capt. J.J. Kellogg, of Co. B 113th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

    by John Jackson Kellogg ...
    Recollections of Captain J. J. Kellogg. The day we left home for the war was an eventful one, and the incidents crowded into that day will never be effaced from my memory. There was a rally that afternoon, upon which occasion we added some important names to our company roll. Some of the boys who then enlisted in our ranks were prominent in our local society and passed current in the ranks of our ... Read more

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  • One Man's Initiation--1917

    by John Dos Passos ...
    In the huge shed of the wharf, piled with crates and baggage, broken by gang-planks leading up to ships on either side, a band plays a tinselly Hawaiian tune; people are dancing in and out among the piles of trunks and boxes. There is a scattering of khaki uniforms, and many young men stand in groups laughing and talking in voices pitched shrill with excitement. In the brown light of the wharf, ... Read more

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  • A Yankee in the Trenches

    by R. Derby Holmes ...
    Series series World War Classics Presents
    Derby Holmes wanted to get into the fight before the fight was over. Just like so many young men over the years he thought leaving his home in the USA and joining the British army would be a great adventure. It didn't take long in the trenches for him to wish for the safety and cleanliness of anywhere but where he was. Holmes does a masterful job bringing us into those cold, muddy trenches and the ... Read more

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