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Synopsis
The Shelf2Life WWI Memoirs Collection is an engaging set of pre-1923 materials that describe life during the Great War through memoirs, letters and diaries. Poignant personal narratives from soldiers, doctors and nurses on the front lines to munitions workers and land girls on the home front, offer invaluable insight into the sacrifices men and women made for their country. Photographs and illustrations intensify stories of struggle and survival from the trenches, hospitals, prison camps and battlefields. The WWI Memoirs Collection captures the pride and fear of the war as experienced by combatants and non-combatants alike and provides historians, researchers and students extensive perspective on individual emotional responses to the war.
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About the Author
American flying ace who flew for the Royal Flying Corp in World War I before the United States entered the war. Shot down from 8,000 feet, he was capture by the Germans and escaped by jumping from a moving prison train. He walked seventy-two days through Western Europe to Holland and freedom. He was a national hero and the top speaker in 1918. He ended his career in Hollywood as a silent film star and was found dead with a bullet to his head the Hamilton Hotel in Los Angeles at age thirty. The circumstances of his death continue to be disputed. He was buried in his hometown of Momence, Illinois in 1920. No marker was placed on his grave until 2007 when local citizens led an effort to mark his grave.
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