Scarlet Fields The Combat Memoir of a World War I Medal of Honor Hero

Name: Scarlet Fields The Combat Memoir of a World War I Medal of Honor Hero
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ISBN: 9780700620197

ISBN-10: 0700620192

ISBN-13: 9780700620197

Edition: 2012

Authors: John Lewis Barkley

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The train was packed with men. Men lying as still as if they were already dead. Men shaking with pain. One man raving, jabbering, yelling, in delirium. Everywhere bandages . . . bandages . . . bandages . . . and blood. Those words describe the moment when Private John Lewis Barkley first grasped the grim reality of the war he had entered. The rest of Barkley's memoir, first published in 1930 as No Hard Feelings and long out of print, provides a vivid ground-level look at World War I through the eyes of a soldier whose exploits rivaled those of Sergeant York. A reconnaissance man and sniper, Barkley served in Company K of the 4th Infantry Regiment, a unit that participated in almost every…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 8/15/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Steven Trout chairs the English Department at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. His most recent book is On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919-1941.