Through the Wheat: A Novel of the World War I Marines Staff Recommended WORLD WAR I takes us

WORLD WAR I takes us from the first shots in Sarajevo to the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles and through every bunker

struggle to keep their hands from freezing in open-air cockpits

" Composed in short chapters that move between the home front and the front lines

a hundred years later

Through the Wheat: A Novel of the World War I Marines Staff Recommended WORLD WAR I takes usDescription by Thomas Boyd Paperback Fresh out of a Defiance, Ohio, high school, Thomas Boyd (18981935) joined the Marines to serve his country in the patriotic heat of the spring of 1917. In 1919 he came home from the war with a Croix de Guerre and a desire to write. He joined the St. Paul News as a journalist and opened a bookstore, whose patrons included F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis. Through the Wheat appeared to immediate acclaim, with