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This Man's Army: A War in Fifty-odd Sonnets (The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War)
John Allan Wyeth
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Description for This Man's Army: A War in Fifty-odd Sonnets (The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War)
Paperback. An autobiographical account of the author's service years, detailing his duties as interpreter, messenger, and occasionally sentry while traveling town by town toward the German Hindenburg line. It recounts the devastating effects of modern warfare, the cultural interactions of American and French forces, and the camaraderie of soldiers on leave. Series: Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Series. Num Pages: 120 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJF; DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 11. Weight in Grams: 204.
This is a newly restored vision of World War I in verse from a talented - and largely unknown - American soldier-poet.First published in 1928, ""This Man's Army: A War in Fifty-Odd Sonnets"" is a gripping collection of narrative verse that represents the beginning and end of the promising literary career of John Allan Wyeth, a Princeton-educated French interpreter in the American Expeditionary Force's Thirty-third Division. Though it received strong reviews and enough sales to warrant a trade edition in 1929, the volume faced the insurmountable adversary of the Great Depression, and its author soon vanished from the literary scene.This ... Read more
This is a newly restored vision of World War I in verse from a talented - and largely unknown - American soldier-poet.First published in 1928, ""This Man's Army: A War in Fifty-Odd Sonnets"" is a gripping collection of narrative verse that represents the beginning and end of the promising literary career of John Allan Wyeth, a Princeton-educated French interpreter in the American Expeditionary Force's Thirty-third Division. Though it received strong reviews and enough sales to warrant a trade edition in 1929, the volume faced the insurmountable adversary of the Great Depression, and its author soon vanished from the literary scene.This ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Condition
New
Series
Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Series
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781570037795
SKU
V9781570037795
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About John Allan Wyeth
One of America's leading contemporary men of letters, Dana Gioia is an internationally renowned poet and critic. His most recent volume of poetry, Interrogations at Noon, won the American Book Award. B. J. Omanson is a military historian and poet who works as a historical interpreter at Pricketts Fort in Fairmont, West Virginia.
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