This Man's Army: A War In Fifty-Odd Sonnets
Wyeth, John Allan
Published by Longmans Green and Co., London, 1929
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First published November of 1928, this second printing was made in September 1929. 60 pages. Volume remains tight and very clean with only minimal signs of use. Dust jacket is a bit aged, and shows chips and tears along edges. One open tear at the lower outside corner over the top cover affects the lower portion of the lettering "Y." Jacket is otherwise generally clean with other lettering and images intact. Jacket is now in a clear Brodart protective sleeve. Seller Inventory # 041744
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Title: This Man's Army: A War In Fifty-Odd Sonnets
Publisher: Longmans Green and Co., London
Publication Date: 1929
Binding: Cloth - Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
Edition: First Edition, Second Printing
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This Man's Army: A War in Fifty-Odd Sonnets. (reprint of 1928 edition) (The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Series)
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Condition: Used - Like New. 2008. Paperback. Publisher's mark to text block. Otherwise, Fine. Seller Inventory # C56235
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This Man's Army: A War in Fifty-odd Sonnets (Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War) (Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Series)
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University of South Carolina Press, United States, South Carolina, 2008
ISBN 10: 1570037795
ISBN 13: 9781570037795
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This is a newly restored vision of World War I in verse from a talented - and largely unknown - American soldier-poet.First published in 1928, "This Man's Army: A War in Fifty-Odd Sonnets" is a gripping collection of narrative verse that represents the beginning and end of the promising literary career of John Allan Wyeth, a Princeton-educated French interpreter in the American Expeditionary Force's Thirty-third Division. Though it received strong reviews and enough sales to warrant a trade edition in 1929, the volume faced the insurmountable adversary of the Great Depression, and its author soon vanished from the literary scene.This new edition of "This Man's Army" restores to print a lost vantage point on the American experience in the Great War as valuable for its high literary merits as for its historical accuracy. The new introduction by Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, chronicles the life of the elusive author and maps the book's critical reception and place in World War I poetry, while new annotations by military historian B. J. Omanson establish the historical context of individual poems.Wyeth (1894-1981), the son of a prominent New York medical family, had just completed a master's degree in French at Princeton when the United States entered World War I in 1917 and he was motivated into service. His fluency in French garnered him a position in the Interpreters Corps as a second lieutenant in the Thirty-third Division deployed to France and Belgium, and he served in this capacity until his discharge in October 1919. "This Man's Army" is an autobiographical account of Wyeth's service years, detailing his duties as interpreter, messenger, and occasionally sentry while traveling town by town toward the German Hindenburg line. With an unwavering eye for singular details, Wyeth recounts the devastating effects of modern warfare, the cultural interactions of American and French forces, and the lighthearted camaraderie of soldiers on leave. Although he is keenly aware of the brutality of combat, Wyeth's narrator never doubts the eventual American victory.The term fifty-odd in the subtitle describes the sonnets both quantitatively - in that there are fifty-five in total - and qualitatively - as Wyeth stretched the traditional form through incorporation of American and British military jargon and Jazz Age slang as well as a new rhyme scheme unprecedented in the seven-century history of the form.The republication of "This Man's Army" restores to American historical literature an authentically detailed and imaginatively idiosyncratic vision of the Great War from a remarkable soldier-poet who shares universal truths about warfare as relevant and provocative today as when they were written. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR002810130
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This Man's Army: A War in Fifty-odd Sonnets (The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War)
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Univ of South Carolina Pr, 2008
ISBN 10: 1570037795
ISBN 13: 9781570037795
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This Man's Army: A War in Fifty-odd Sonnets (The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War)
Published by
Univ of South Carolina Pr, 2008
ISBN 10: 1570037795
ISBN 13: 9781570037795
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Softcover
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