A Machine-Gunner in France: The Memoirs of Ward Schrantz, 35th Division, 1917-1919: 16 (North Texas Military Biography and Memoir Series) - Hardcover

Ward Schranz (author) & Jeffrey L. Patrick (editor)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1574417533 ISBN 13: 9781574417531

Publisher: University of North Texas Press, 2019

Synopsis

This is the WWI memoir of Ward Schrantz, a National Guard officer and machine gun company commander in the Kansas-Missouri 35th Division. He extensively documents his experiences and those of his men, from training at Camp Doniphan to their voyage across the Atlantic, and to their time in the trenches in France's Vosges Mountains and ultimately to their return home. He devotes much of his memoir to the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, in which the 35th Division suffered heavy casualties and made only moderate gains before being replaced by fresh troops. Schrantz also describes the daily life of a soldier, including living conditions, relations between officers and enlisted men, and the horrific experience of combat.

Editor Jeffrey Patrick combines his narrative with excerpts from a detailed history of the unit that Schrantz wrote for his local newspaper, and also provides an editor's introduction and annotations.

About this title

About the Author

Jeffrey L. Patrick is the museum curator at Wilson's Creek National Battlefield in Republic, Missouri. He holds a master's degree in history from Purdue University and is the editor of Yesterday There Was Glory: With the 4th Division, A.E.F., in World War I (UNT Press).

Edition details

• Publisher: University of North Texas Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1574417533
• ISBN 13: 9781574417531
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400