Research Catalog

Title

The Shamrock Battalion in the Great War / Martin J. Hogan ; edited with an introduction by James J. Cooke.

Author

Hogan, Martin J. (Martin Joseph), 1901-

Publication

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Cooke, James J.

Description

viii, 132 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"Hogan shares his frontline experience at St. Mihiel and in the Argonne Forest as a National Guardsman in the 165th Infantry's Shamrock Battalion, a regiment in the famed Rainbow Division of World War I. His memories of Chaplain Father Francis Duffy and others present the war from the soldier's perspective"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Hogan, Martin J. 1901-
• United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 165th. Battalion, 3rd
• 1914-1918
• World War, 1914-1918 > Regimental histories > United States
• Saint-Mihiel, Battle of, Saint-Mihiel, France, 1918
• Argonne, Battle of the, France, 1918
• World War, 1914-1918 > Personal narratives, American
• Regimental histories
• Armee
• Erster Weltkrieg
• France
• France > Saint-Mihiel
• United States
• USA
• Saint-Mihiel > Schlacht (1918)
• Maas-Argonnen-Gebiet > Schlacht

Genre/Form

Personal narratives – American.

Note

• Revision of: The Shamrock Battalion of the Rainbow. 1919.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-129) and index.

Contents

One of the beginnings of the "Rainbow" division -- Through the submarines -- Tightening belts for the front -- We learn the song of the guns -- Our first fighting -- In the hospital -- Before we ride the German storm -- The "Rainbow" dams the flood -- Through Hell at Château Thierry -- In the hospital again -- The "Million-Dollar Shoot" -- The last great push -- God's country again -- My outfit.

ISBN

• 9780826217103
• 0826217109

LCCN

2006035453

OCLC

• ocm74569022
• 74569022
• SCSB-1422745

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library