Doughboy's Diary Tapa dura - 1998

Información de la editorial

Corporal Chester Earl Baker joined the National Guard along with relatives and friends for adventure. Suddenly the young men of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania found themselves in Mexico chasing Pancho Villa. After 1916 they became part of the 8th Regiment 7th Division, U.S. Army and, together with other Pennsylvanians, spent a year training in Georgia before they shipped out to France to help the Allies "over there."

Corporal Baker, unofficial mother hen to Company F, tells a fascinating, sometimes hilarious, sometimes tender, and often heartrending tale of the year the men of Company F spent in France, before and after the Armistice. Together, they fought lice and dysentery, mutilation and death, shell shock and homesickness. In one short year, they changed from quixotic boys dreaming of glory to battle-hardened heroes, willing to lay down their own lives to save a friend's. Those who survived the bloody war, which they thought would end war forever, returned from France members of a brotherhood as sacred as Arthur's Knights of the Round Table.