Intimate Letters From France During Americas First Year Of War Classic Reprint

Author : Ferdinand Frazier Jelke
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666014252
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Letters From a Liason Officer (Classic Reprint) written by Ferdinand Frazier Jelke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letters From a Liason Officer It goes without saying that the letters here gathered were not written with any idea of being permanently preserved. They were merely a progressive recital, in a most informal and unstudied vein, of circum stances and scenes with which the writer came in touch in the course of his work, first in the ranks of the Marine Corps, and afterward as a Lieutenant of Infantry in the Liaison Service, in France. But since the author's return from Over There - and in view of the gigantic scale of World War and the epochal character of the events and situations touched upon in the correspondence - members of his family have urged that the series of letters written from the scenes of his activities during 1917 be made into a handy volume for the use of such friends as may find in them some personal appeal and interest. In preparing the letters for publication an attempt has been made to omit the more private and intimate details, while retaining such of the descriptive text as would aid the reader in gaining some last ing impressions of the scenes and incidents which rushed by, like an animated panorama, in those days of frenzied endeavor and kaleidoscopic change, beginning shortly after America's entrance into the war and continuing until after the signing of the Armistice, and the return of the writer to America, early in 1919. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.