Thomas Boyd

Broschiertes Buch

Points of Honor

Short Stories of the Great War by a Us Combat Marine

Herausgeber: Trout, Steven

Beschreibung

A masterwork of World War I short stories portraying the experiences of Marines in battle. Points of Honor is based on author Thomas Alexander Boyd's personal experiences as an enlisted Marine. First published in 1925 and long out of print, this edition rescues from obscurity a vivid, kaleidoscopic vision of American soldiers, serving in a global conflict a century ago.

Autor

Thomas Alexander Boyd (1898–1935) was a Marine veteran of World War I and the author of the novel Through the Wheat (1923), widely regarded as one of the finest depictions of combat in American literature. Boyd also wrote historical fiction and biographies of figures such as General “Mad” Anthony Wayne and “Light Horse” Harry Lee, the father of Robert E. Lee. Steven Trout is the chair of the Department of English and codirector of the Center for the Study of War and Memory at the University of South Alabama. He is the author of On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919–1941 and coeditor of World War I in American Fiction: An Anthology of Short Stories.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Alabama Press
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780817359119
• ISBN-10: 0817359117
• Artikelnr.: 50106907