Research Catalog

Title

At Belleau Wood with rifle and sketchpad : memoir of a United States Marine in World War I / Louis C. Linn ; edited by Laura Jane Linn Wright and B.J. Omanson.

Author

Linn, Louis C., 1895-1949.

Publication

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, ©2012.

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Additional Authors

• Wright, Laura Jane Linn, 1941-
• Omanson, B. J. (Bradley J.)

Description

x, 189 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Louis Linn, a Marine in the 4th Marines Brigade, Second Division (Regular Army), A.E.F., carried a sketchbook and pencil. Linn's memoir recalls his training, life in the trenches, fighting at the Battle of Belleau Wood, his wounding, and subsequent hospitalization. Throughout, his sketches and woodcuts portray the action, providing a vivid account of the war from the trenches"--

Subject

• Linn, Louis C., 1895-1949
• United States. Marine Brigade, 4th
• United States. Marine Corps > Biography
• World War, 1914-1918 > Personal narratives, American
• World War, 1914-1918 > Campaigns > Western Front
• Belleau Wood, Battle of, France, 1918
• Marines > United States > Biography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. In training-Norfolk and Quantico -- 2. A village in the Vosges-Germainvilliers -- 3. The trenches-Verdun front -- 4. Toward an unknown front-Ancemont, Heippes, Hargeville, Venault-le-Châtel -- 5. Behind the lines-Beaugrenier -- 6. The attack-Belleau Wood -- 7. The line-Soissons -- 8. Hospital-Angers -- 9. With the company again-Camp Bois de l'Évêque -- 10. Going in again-Saint-Mihiel -- 11. Hospital once more-Neufchâteau and Orléans -- 12. Bits of life and death -- 13. In a casual company-Orléans -- Epilogue. Home-USS Tiger and Quantico.

ISBN

• 9780786449040 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 0786449047 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011050068

OCLC

767974577

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library