Through the Wheat: A Novel of the World War I Marines Staff Recommended from the strategy of the

from the strategy of the politicians to the tactics of the generals

When he returns home after 22 months of service

struggle to keep their hands from freezing in open-air cockpits

WORLD WAR I takes us from the first shots in Sarajevo to the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles and through every bunker

Through the Wheat: A Novel of the World War I Marines Staff Recommended from the strategy of theDescription by Thomas Boyd Paperback Fresh out of a Defiance, Ohio, high school, Thomas Boyd (18981935) joined the Marines to serve his country in the patriotic heat of the spring of 1917. In 1919 he came home from the war with a Croix de Guerre and a desire to write. He joined the St. Paul News as a journalist and opened a bookstore, whose patrons included F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis. Through the Wheat appeared to immediate acclaim, with