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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.
- 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:
- Mexico-americanos en la Gran Guerra. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Mexican American.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, Mexican-American.
- Civil rights workers--Texas--Biography.
- Civil rights workers.
- Mexican Americans--Texas--Biography.
- Mexican Americans.
- World War, 1914-1918--Regimental histories--United States.
- United States. Army. Infantry Division, 90th--Biography.
- United States.
- Sáenz, José de la Luz, 1888-1953.
- Sáenz, José de la Luz.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (530 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station, Texas : Texas A&M University Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- "I am home, safe and sound, and reviewing all these memories as if in a dream. All of this pleases me. I have been faithful to my duty." Thus José de la Luz Sáenz ends his account of his military service in France and Germany in 1918. Published in Spanish in 1933, his annotated book of diary entries and letters recounts not only his own war experiences but also those of his fellow Mexican Americans.A skilled and dedicated teacher in South Texas before and after the war, Sáenz's patriotism, his keen observation of the discrimination he and his friends faced both at home and in
- 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 mexico-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.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-62349-151-7
- OCLC:
- 876088685
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