They called them soldier boys : a Texas infantry regiment in World War I / / Gregory W. Ball
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| Autore: |
Ball Gregory W. <1969->
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| Titolo: |
They called them soldier boys : a Texas infantry regiment in World War I / / Gregory W. Ball
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| Pubblicazione: | Denton, Tx., : University of North Texas Press, 2013 |
| Edizione: | 1st edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 940.4/1273 |
| Soggetto topico: | World War, 1914-1918 - Regimental histories - United States |
| World War, 1914-1918 - Campaigns - France | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Recruiting the 7th Texas Infantry -- A portrait of the 7th Texas Infantry -- Camp Bowie and France -- "Fit to get down to serious business" -- The Western Front, October 6/13, 1918 -- The Western Front, October 14/30, 1918 -- "Bad enough at the best" -- Homecoming and the war's legacy. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | They Called Them Soldier Boys offers an in-depth study of soldiers of the Texas National Guard's Seventh Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I, through their recruitment, training, journey to France, combat, and their return home. Gregory W. Ball focuses on the fourteen counties in North, Northwest, and West Texas where officers recruited the regiment's soldiers in the summer of 1917, and how those counties compared with the rest of the state in terms of political, social, and economic attitudes. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | They called them soldier boys |
| ISBN: | 1-57441-511-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910788491003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
War and the Southwest series ; ; 11.