Fix bayonets!
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About This Book
This collection of WWI sketches of the Fifth Marine Regiment is “forthright, unsparing, deeply felt but unsentimental, and reads like a house afire” ( The Wall Street Journal ). From a soldier who was there, here are first-hand accounts of combat and camaraderie during the Great War. In a series of stories and illustrations, Capt. John W. Thomason captures the bravery and gallantry of the leathernecks fighting the Germans in France—putting readers in the trenches, facing the staccato of rifle fire, feeling the pangs of starvation, and the demoralizing fatigue. This collection is a tribute to t...
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- FIX BAYONETS!
- INTRODUCTION THE LEATHERNECKS
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- I BATTLE-SIGHT THE FIGHTING AROUND THE BOIS DE BELLEAU
- I ATTACK
- II REPLACEMENTS
- III THE BOIS DE BELLEAU
- IV COMING OUT
- SONGS ONE “BANG AWAY, LULU”
- II THE CHARGE AT SOISSONS
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- SONGS TWO “CARRY ME BACK TO OLE VIRGINNY”
- III MARINES AT BLANC MONT
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- SONGS THREE “MADEMOISELLE FROM ARMENTIÈRES”
- IV MONKEY-MEAT
- SONGS FOUR “SWEET AD-O-LINE”
- V THE RHINE
- SONGS FIVE “LONG BOY”
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