My Dear People : The World War I Letters of Private Ned Crawford

Crawford, Ned

ISBN 10: 1564745945 / ISBN 13: 9781564745941

Published by Daniel & Daniel, Publishers, Incorporated, 2017

Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 56817183-75

Synopsis:

"My Dear People is made up of three different alternating ingredients, each by a different author: a historical account of surrounding military events by Christopher McManus, Constance Crawford's commentary on her father's letters, and the letters themselves by Ned Crawford. These writings are interwoven chronologically here to make Private Ned Crawford's story comprehensible, entertaining, and moving. The letters Ned wrote to his best friend while serving as a soldier in World War I offer an intimate, quirky, and intelligent account of what it was like for a thirty-one-year-old man who abhorred war and any official interference with individual freedom to submit to a wartime draft and to perform his part in the enormous human drama that was the American Expeditionary Force."--Provided by publisher.

About the Author: A self-educated man, limited in formal schooling to the sixth grade in a small-town Ohio public school, Ned Crawford managed to develop a terse, graceful, and humorous writing style. All his life he wrote letters. "Getting my letters written" was always on his mind, and, in many ways, doing so could be considered his central life work. During the last year of World War I, Pfc. Crawford served as a communications engineer in the American Expeditionary Force in Belgium and France.

Bibliographic Details

Title: My Dear People : The World War I Letters of ...
Publisher: Daniel & Daniel, Publishers, Incorporated
Publication Date: 2017
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good