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Of all the American divisions in World War I, the 4th Brigade of Marines, Second Division (Regular Army), A.E.F., suffered the most casualties, captured the second most territory, captured the most enemy prisoners and equipment, and won the most decorations for valor. Louis Linn, a young Marine in this illustrious division, carried a sketchbook and pencil stub, drawing whenever he could to maintain his sanity in the madness of war. Several years after the Armistice, he used these sketches to write the stories of events that haunted him, that gave him nightmares, that kept him awake at night. Never before published, Linn's memoir recalls his training in Norfolk and Quantico, life in the trenches at Verdun, fighting at the Battle of Belleau Wood, his wounding at Soissons and again at St. Mihiel, and his subsequent hospitalization. Throughout, his sketches and woodcuts portray the action, providing a vivid account of the war from the trenches.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. In Training—Norfolk and Quantico
Reveille, The Review, Guard Duty, Off for France at Last
2. A Village in the Vosges—Germainvilliers
Boxcar Pullmans, In Billets, At Half-Past Three in the Morning, A Ghost Among the French
3. The Trenches—Verdun Front
A Ghost Among the Russians, In Billets Again, Movie Night at the "Y," The Lilliputian Train, No Man's Land, Horseradish, Devil Rum, The Cat
4. Toward an Unknown Front—Ancemont, Heippes, Hargeville, Venault-le-Châtel
That Girl, A Ghost Among the Tommies, An Assassination
5. Behind the Lines—Beaugrenier
Our Buglers, Dizzy Lizzy
6. The Attack—Belleau Wood
An Endless Line of Refugees, On the Grounds of a Great Chateau, The Watch, Holding Up the "Y"
7. The Line—Soissons
The Terrible Night March, Hurrah for the Frogs!, A French Band at an Old Chateau, Caught in a Crossfire
8. Hospital—Angers
The Nurse, Rudberg, A Conversation, An Idyllic Interlude on the Loire
9. With the Company Again—Camp Bois de l'Évêque
Back to Duty, The Bee-Hive, Marching in Strange Company
10. Going In Again—Saint-Mihiel
Wounded Again
11. Hospital Once More—Neufchâteau and Orléans
Operation, Jocko, Armistice
12. Bits of Life and Death
The Prisoner, Benjy's Story, At Loggerheads with Moler, One Dead Soldier
13. In a Casual Company—Orléans
Paris at Last
Epilogue. Home—USS Tiger and Quantico
A Blow for the American Soldier Coda: As It Might Have Been
Notes
Bibliography
Index
