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Paths of glory : impressions of war written at and near the front by Irvin S. Cobb
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Jda .436
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury), 1876-1944.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Western Front.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- 414 p. ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : George H. Doran Co., [c1915]
- Contents:
- A little village called Motignies St. Christophe
- To war in a taxicab
- Sherman said it
- "Marsch, Marsch, Marsch, so geh'n wir weiter"
- Being a guest of the Kaiser
- With the German wrecking crew
- The grapes of wrath
- Three generals and a cook
- Viewing a battle from a balloon
- In the trenches before Rheims
- War de luxe
- The rut of big guns in France
- Those yellow pine boxes
- The red glutton
- Belgium, the rag doll of Europe
- Louvain the forsaken.
- Notes:
- "Written as a series of first-hand impressions during the fall and early winter of 1914 while the writer was on staff service for the Saturday evening post in the western theatre of the European war."--Note.
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