One Man's War - Johnson, A. E.
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When Bernie Jones went to war in 1918 he was part of a transition that changed the whole nature of our country. Born just before the turn of the Century, he grew up in a day when Kansas City, Missouri was on the dividing live between a maturing nation and the old wild west. He and his gang of boyhood friends looked on their advent into the United States Army as a great camp-out with little chance of real action. It was supposed that the German forces would fold the minute they saw fresh new troops opposite them in the trenches of France. It didn't happen. They fought fierce last-ditch…mehr

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When Bernie Jones went to war in 1918 he was part of a transition that changed the whole nature of our country. Born just before the turn of the Century, he grew up in a day when Kansas City, Missouri was on the dividing live between a maturing nation and the old wild west. He and his gang of boyhood friends looked on their advent into the United States Army as a great camp-out with little chance of real action. It was supposed that the German forces would fold the minute they saw fresh new troops opposite them in the trenches of France. It didn't happen. They fought fierce last-ditch engagements at Chateau Thierry, Saint Mihiel, and especially the Argonne. Bernie and his friends find their moments-of-truth in that last desperate fighting. When the smoke clears, he is left alone to go home to an uncertain future in a country that would never again be isolated. His stressed-out mind is full of bloody images and self-doubts, leaving him to rely on a tenuous faith that promises to keep him alive until the time when he can reorient himself and begin life over again.
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Amelia E. Johnson was a Canadian author and poet. Johnson was born in Toronto, Canada West. As an editor, she hoped to inspire other writers of African American origin by publishing their work in a brief monthly. Writing under the name Mrs. A. E. Johnson, her style to writing has been compared to Emma Dunham Kelley and Paul Laurence Dunbar, emphasizing on the social surroundings of her characters rather than defining ethnic or "racial" characteristics. After a century of obscurity, literary scholars rediscovered Johnson's works, despite the fact that she had been hailed by her contemporaries. She married the Rev. Harvey Johnson, a well-known Baptist clergyman whom she met after relocating to Boston, United States. She also published in several well-known Black print publications, including The Baptist Messenger, The American Baptist, and Our Women and Children. She is also an English translation of "Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault (Dodd Mead and Company, 1921). She released The Joy in 1887, followed by The Ivy in 1888. These short-lived journals aimed to teach young African Americans about their culture, with The Joy featuring stories for young ladies and The Ivy raising knowledge about African American history.