Louis C. Linn

At Belleau Wood with Rifle and Sketchpad

Memoir of a United States Marine in World War I
Herausgeber: Omanson, B. J.; Wright, Laura Jane Linn

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Produktbeschreibung

Of all the American divisions in World War I, the 4th Brigade of Marines, Second Division (Regular Army), A.E.F., suffered the most casualties, captured the second most territory, captured the most enemy prisoners and equipment, and won the most decorations for valor. Louis Linn, a young Marine in this illustrious division, carried a sketchbook and pencil stub, drawing whenever he could to maintain his sanity in the madness of war. Several years after the Armistice, he used these sketches to write the stories of events that haunted him, that gave him nightmares, that kept him awake at night. Never before published, Linn's memoir recalls his training in Norfolk and Quantico, life in the trenches at Verdun, fighting at the Battle of Belleau Wood, his wounding at Soissons and again at St. Mihiel, and his subsequent hospitalization. Throughout, his sketches and woodcuts portray the action, providing a vivid account of the war from the trenches.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780786449040
• ISBN-10: 0786449047
• Artikelnr.: 33619929

Autorenporträt

Louis C. Linn attended the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art and the New York Art Students' League after the war. His Eastern North America's Wildflowers was published after his death in 1978.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
Preface     
Introduction     
1. In Training-Norfolk and Quantico     
Reveille, The Review, Guard Duty, Off for France at Last
2. A Village in the Vosges-Germainvilliers     
Boxcar Pullmans, In Billets, At Half-Past Three in the Morning, A Ghost
Among the French
3. The Trenches-Verdun Front     
A Ghost Among the Russians, In Billets Again, Movie Night at the "Y," The
Lilliputian Train, No Man's Land, Horseradish, Devil Rum, The Cat
4. Toward an Unknown Front-Ancemont, Heippes, Hargeville,
Venault-le-Châtel     
That Girl, A Ghost Among the Tommies, An Assassination
5. Behind the Lines-Beaugrenier     
Our Buglers, Dizzy Lizzy
6. The Attack-Belleau Wood     
An Endless Line of Refugees, On the Grounds of a Great Chateau, The Watch,
Holding Up the "Y"
7. The Line-Soissons     
The Terrible Night March, Hurrah for the Frogs!, A French Band at an Old
Chateau, Caught in a Crossfire
8. Hospital-Angers     
The Nurse, Rudberg, A Conversation, An Idyllic Interlude on the Loire
9. With the Company Again-Camp Bois de l'Évêque     
Back to Duty, The Bee-Hive, Marching in Strange Company 10. Going In
Again-Saint-Mihiel     
Wounded Again
11. Hospital Once More-Neufchâteau and Orléans     
Operation, Jocko, Armistice
12. Bits of Life and Death     
The Prisoner, Benjy's Story, At Loggerheads with Moler, One Dead Soldier
13. In a Casual Company-Orléans     
Paris at Last
Epilogue. Home-USS Tiger and Quantico     
A Blow for the American Soldier Coda: As It Might Have Been     
Notes     
Bibliography     
Index