Research Catalog

Title

• Eyewitnesses to the Great War : American writers, reporters, volunteers and soldiers in France, 1914-1918 / Ed Klekowski and Libby Klekowski.

Author

Klekowski, Edward J.

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Publishers, 2012.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Klekowski, Libby, 1941-

Description

vii, 253 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This book describes the wartime experiences of American idealists on the Western Front. Excerpts from memoirs are supplemented by descriptions of personalities, places, battles and even equipment and weapons, thus placing these generally forgotten American adventurers into the context of their times. A set of maps drawn and rare photographs supplement the text"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• 1900 - 1999
• Adventure and adventurers > France > Biography
• Americans > France > Biography
• Authors, American > France > Biography
• Foreign correspondents > France > Biography
• Idealism, American > France > History > 20th century
• Soldiers > France > Biography
• Volunteers > France > Biography
• World War, 1914-1918 > France
• World War, 1914-1918 > Participation, American
• World War, 1914-1918 > Personal narratives, American

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Biographies.
• Biography
• History
• Personal Narrative
• Personal narratives
• Personal narratives – American
• Récits personnels.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Edith and Henry -- Along the Moselle in a Model T -- Verdun Madness -- Motoring Along the Meuse -- Crossing the River, Too Late -- Other Verdun Ambulance Corps -- Americans in the Foreign Legion -- Rendezvous with Death -- Lafayette's Flyers -- Writers and Reporters -- Lafayette, We Are Here! -- Gott Mit Uns -- The Fog of Battle -- Attack, Attrition, Pursuit -- Armistice, Peace, War.

ISBN

• 9780786463480 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 0786463481 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012010086

OCLC

770876295

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library