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Title: Through the Wheat by Thomas Boyd, Edwin Howard Simmons ISBN: 0-8032-6168-3 Publisher: Bison Bks Corp Pub. Date: September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Easy read
Comment: Thomas Boyd's "Through the Wheat" was written by a former newpaperman and the book is fairly easy to read. The writing style was such that you though that it was a true story being told to a friend. He was better known when he was alive for his historical novels. But I think this novel was his best.
Thomas Boyd was an interesting man who died from a brain tumor thought to have been caused by his being gassed during the WWI. He came back the war disillusioned and ran for public office in New Hampshire or Vermont as a communist. Mr. Boyd died suddenly in his early thirties and left behind a wife and a daughter. One of his collections of short stories Points of Honor(light) was made in a successful silent movie.
Rating: 4
Summary: America's Best World War I Novel
Comment: If asked to name a World War I novel most Americans would almost certainly say "All Quiet on the Western Front". Thanks to our rather uniform public education system, Remarque's novel has earned a place in American culture as the quintessential novel of The Great War. It deserves its reputation as a landmark of 20th century literature, but unfortunately its success contributed to the disapearance from memory of Thomas Boyd's "Through the Wheat". Without moralizing about the cost of war, Boyd brilliantly depicts its horrors and their effects on the psyche of a young American Marine. If you want to understand the Combat experience -- the noise, dirt, distraction, sweat, blood, stench of war -- this is a novel you must read. It is a tragedy that it is no longer in print.
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Title: At Belleau Wood by Robert B. Asprey ISBN: 1574410164 Publisher: University of North Texas Press Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Company K (Library of Alabama Classics) by William March ISBN: 0817304800 Publisher: Univ. of Alabama Press Pub. Date: February, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: His Time in Hell : A Texas Marine in France: The World War I Memoir of Warren R. Jackson by Warren R. Jackson ISBN: 0891417516 Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 11 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Three Soldiers (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by John Dos Passos, Townsend Ludington, John Roderigo Dos Passos ISBN: 0141180277 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: December, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Chambers Dictionary of Etymology by Barnhart ISBN: 0550142304 Publisher: Chambers Pub. Date: 15 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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