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Doing My Bit Over There: A U.S. Marine's Memoir of the Western Front in World War I

By Everard J. Bullis

Book information

Publisher
Publishers, Inc., McFarland & Company
Year
2018
ISBN
9781476632780
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
6 MB (6423287 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-10-01 02:21:29
HIS027090HistoryMilitaryNonfiction

Description

Motivated by patriotism, 21-year old Everard Bullis of St. Paul, Minnesota—the only boy of five siblings from a middle-class family—enlisted in the U.S. Marines in 1917 and went to the Western Front. His clear-eyed memoir describes in detail the Fifth Marine Regiment's desperate stand against repeated German assaults at Belleau Wood, along with actions at Soissons, St. Mihiel and Blanc Mont Ridge. Historical figures appear, including Captain Frank Whitehead, George W. Hamilton ("America's Greatest World War I Hero") and General John J. Pershing.

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