His Time in Hell: A Texas Marine in France : The World War I Memoir of Warren R. Jackson - Couverture rigide

Jackson, Warren R.

 
9780891417514: His Time in Hell: A Texas Marine in France : The World War I Memoir of Warren R. Jackson
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ISBN 10 : 0891417516 ISBN 13 : 9780891417514
Editeur : Presidio Press, 2001

Synopsis

The staggeringly high casualties suffered by the 6th Marine Regiment during World War I mean that Warren R. Jackson was almost certainly the only member of his company to survive from Verdun in 1916 to the end of the war. With that in mind, it is the manifestly human approach of this book that creates such a vivid impression of life in the trenches - this is not a diatribe against inept allied leadership or against the institution of war itself, it is the honest reflection of a concsript. His Time in Hell is an extremely valuable memoir of a World War I marine. It provides a wealth of information about enlisted life at the time, and is told in a self-deprecating tone that might lull the reader into thinking that perhaps the author was not much of a marine; however, the fact that he was regularly promoted, awarded two Silver Stars and the Croix de Guerre and that he was regularly chosen for operations that required intelligence and bravery should be enough to show that had not only these qualities, but also a measure of humility, a trait not often ascribed to men of his profession.

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À propos de l?auteur

Beyond the fact that he lived in Houston following the war, virtually nothing is known about Warren R. Jackson. The manuscript was written in the late 1920s and found its way to a special collection of American History at the University of Texas, Austin, where it was recently unearthed by marine Corps historian George B. Clark. His previous books include With the Old Corps in Nicaragua and Devil Dogs.

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Éditeur
Presidio Press
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0891417516
ISBN 13 
9780891417514
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
Éditeur
Clark George B.
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