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Portrait of war : the U.S. Army's first combat artists and the doughboys' experience in WWI / Peter Krass.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Krass, Peter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces.
- World War, 1914-1918--Europe, Western.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1914-1918--Art and the war.
- War artists.
- War artists--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Art and the war.
- Biographies.
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- x, 342 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley, [2007]
- Summary:
- Eighty-five years before there were embedded journalists with American armed forces in Iraq, eight brave artist-soldiers risked their lives in the trenches and battlefields to bring the reality of World War I back home. In Portrait of War, Peter Krass shares the heroic adventures of these men as they witnessed, explored, and depicted the trials and triumphs of the American soldier and the tragedy of war. Written with the intensity of a novel, this compelling narrative follows the artists as they marched shoulder to shoulder with the doughboys, sketching while under fire and doing their best to stay alive. Studded with examples of their remarkable work and excerpts from the artists' journals, this thrilling account places us at the front lines as surely as our television cameras do today.
- Contents:
- 1 The Journey into the Maelstrom 5
- 2 Into the Trenches 23
- 3 A Brother Goes to War 41
- 4 Last Peaceful Forays 49
- 5 A Grim Harvest along the Marne 73
- 6 Questioned Sacrifice in Belleau Wood 91
- 7 The Desperate Peace Offensive 111
- 8 Visiting the Wild Cowboy Spirits 131
- 9 Marshal Foch's Counteroffensive 141
- 10 The First Casualty of War Is Truth 165
- 11 Ramping Up in August 179
- 12 The Saint-Mihiel Salient: A Bloodless Offensive 193
- 13 The Meuse Argonne and the Goddess of War 217
- 14 The Festival of the Dead 243
- 15 The Restoration of Light 275
- 16 The Occupation and the Stories of Hardship 281
- 17 Penetrating the Fatherland 293
- Afterword: The Artist-Soldiers 305.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-331) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0471670235
- OCLC:
- 65400345
- Publisher Number:
- 9780471670230
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