"AND THEY
THOUGHT WE WOULDN'T FIGHT"
Floyd Gibbons
George H. Doran Company,
1918. VG+. 1st Edition. No dust jacket. A very nice copy with
crisp corners and virtually no edgewear; no tears or fading. Photographs, documents, appendix: "Personnel of the American
Expeditionary Forces in France", 410 pp. Gibbons was, by 1918, already
famous as a foreign correspondent for The Chicago Tribune, but his
fame became worldwide during WWI when he was shot through an eye while
joining in a frontal assault on Belleau Wood with the US Marines. It was
his story (already posted before he was wounded) which first brought Belleau
Wood, and the Marine Corps, to the attention of the world. This book chronicles
the whole of his experience covering the AEF in France during the war.
Out of Print.
$55.00
