Nels Anderson's World War I diary / edited by Allan Kent Powell ; foreword by Charles S. Peterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Nels, 1889-1986.

Contributor:

Powell, Allan Kent.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anderson, Nels, 1889-1986--Diaries.

Anderson, Nels.

United States. Army. Engineer Combat Battalion, 314th.

United States.

World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, American.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Western Front.

World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Mormon.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nels Anderson's World War I Diary provides a rare glimpse into the wartime experiences of one of the most well-respected sociologists of the twentieth century, the renowned author of The Hobo (1920) and Desert Saints: The Mormon Frontier in Utah (1942).Anderson, a keen observer of people, places, and events his entire life, joined the U.S.

Contents:

Camp Mills, New York, June 1918

Crossing the Atlantic, June 1918

England, June 1918

Arrival in France, June 1918

Training in Humberville, July 1918

Up to the front, August 1918

The St. Mihiel offensive, September 1918

The Meuse-Argonne offensive, October 1918

War's end, November 1918

Through Belgium and Luxembourg, November-December 1918

Germany, December 1918-March 1919

Back to France, March 1919

School in Montpellier, March-April 1919

Notes, April-August 1919.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-60781-256-8

OCLC:

859537658