Through the Wheat: A Novel of the World War I Marines Staff Recommended from the strategy of the

from the strategy of the politicians to the tactics of the generals

compelling prose and enlivened with extraordinarily vivid photographs and detailed maps

a hundred years later

Those who survived the enemy machine-gun fire and hand-to-hand fighting held on for the next two days and nights in shallow foxholes under the sting of mustard gas and crushing steel of artillery fire

" Composed in short chapters that move between the home front and the front lines

Through the Wheat: A Novel of the World War I Marines Staff Recommended from the strategy of theDescription by Thomas Boyd Paperback Fresh out of a Defiance, Ohio, high school, Thomas Boyd (18981935) joined the Marines to serve his country in the patriotic heat of the spring of 1917. In 1919 he came home from the war with a Croix de Guerre and a desire to write. He joined the St. Paul News as a journalist and opened a bookstore, whose patrons included F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis. Through the Wheat appeared to immediate acclaim, with