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The World War I diary of José de la Luz Sáenz / edited and with an introduction by Emilio Zamora ; translated by Emilio Zamora with Ben Maya.
Van Pelt Library D570.3 90th .S2413 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sáenz, José de la Luz, 1888-1953, author.
- Series:
- C.A. Brannen series ; no. 13.
- C.A. Brannen series ; number thirteen
- Standardized Title:
- México-americanos en la Gran Guerra. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Army. Infantry Division, 90th--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Army. Division, 90th.
- United States. Army.
- World War, 1914-1918--Regimental histories--United States.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Sáenz, José de la Luz, 1888-1953.
- Sáenz, José de la Luz.
- Mexican Americans--Texas--Biography.
- Mexican Americans.
- Civil rights workers--Texas--Biography.
- Civil rights workers.
- World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, Mexican-American.
- World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Mexican American.
- Texas.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 513 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station, Texas : Texas A&M University Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- Prologue
- My personal diary
- Reporting at New Braunfels
- The brigade station
- Camp Travis
- France
- How Carrejo and four others died
- A horrible night in "no man's land"
- Toul, Choloy, and Rampondt
- Moving across the rubble of the battlefield to reach the enemy and occupy the line of fire: Montfaucon and Dead Man's Hill
- Days and nights in a foxhole in Romagne
- How we destroyed Hindenburg's impregnable trenches
- Simón González and others
- Hipólito Jasso receives a shrapnel wound
- Dark night, cold night, horrible night in Villers-devant-Dun
- Armistice day
- Memorable march from Pont-Sassy, France
- Memories of the European War, our last campaign, five days and nights
- Thanksgiving and then to Germany
- In Zeltingen, Alemania, by the Moselle
- Mexican Americans attend school
- The Texans and Oklahomans: an occasion for drawing on a postcard
- Prodding that produces favorable results
- Article of War no. 105 and 2,175 bottles of champagne
- A portrait of Zeltingen
- On the last cattle train and cars 40 and 8
- The Mongolia, American steamship
- How Boston receives us
- Demobilizing the 90th Division
- Epilogue: the voice of a claim that demands justice
- To the memory of the Mexican American heroes who died in the Great World War defending the democratic principles of the American Union
- List of honor
- Notes.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Los méxico-americanos en la Gran Guerra: y su contingente en pró de la democracia, la humanidad y la justicia, first published in original Spanish in San Antonio by Artes Gráficas, 1933.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781623491130
- 1623491134
- 9781623491147
- 1623491142
- 9781623491512
- 1623491517
- OCLC:
- 858159463
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