The World War I Diary of José de la Luz Sáenz /

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""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 Jose 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sáenz, Jose de la Luz, 1888-1953 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Zamora, Emilio (Traductor, Editor ), Maya, Ben, -2012 (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Español
Publicado: College Station, Texas : Texas A & M University Press, 2014.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sáenz, Jose de la Luz, > 1888-1953.
United States. > Army. > Division, 90th.
United States. > Army. > Division, 90th > Biography.
Regimental histories.
Mexican Americans.
Civil rights workers.
Military participation > Mexican American
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Histoire des unites > États-Unis.
Americains d'origine mexicaine > Texas > Biographies.
Defenseurs des droits de l'homme > Texas > Biographies.
World War, 1914-1918 > Regimental histories > United States.
Mexican Americans > Texas > Biography.
Civil rights workers > Texas > Biography.
World War, 1914-1918 > Personal narratives, Mexican-American.
World War, 1914-1918 > Participation, Mexican American.
United States.
Texas.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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