Webster Francis H. Somewhere Over There: The Letters, Diary, and Artwork of a World War I Corporal 9780806164519

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Автор: Webster Francis H.
Название: Somewhere Over There: The Letters, Diary, and Artwork of a World War I Corporal
ISBN: 9780806164519
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Биографии: общее жизнеописание

Первая мировая война

ISBN-10: 0806164514
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 296
Вес: 0.46 кг.
Дата издания: 09.07.2019
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 109 black & white illustrations, 1 map
Размер: 234 x 156 x 17
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: The letters, diary, and artwork of a world war i corporal
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание:
Decades before Americans became familiar with the term embedded journalist, a young cartoonist named Francis Webster embodied that role when he served as a volunteer infantryman during World War I. Using his skills as an illustrator, he documented firsthand the harsh realities of combat life and regularly submitted visual dispatches of his experiences back to an Iowa newspaper. The first published collection of Websters wartime chronicles, Somewhere Over There presents a unique view of World War I through a rare compilation of letters, diary entries, cartoons, sketches, and watercolors.

As editor Darrek D. Orwig explains in his introduction, Webster gained valuable training as an illustrator when he worked for famed political cartoonist Jay Ding Darling during the early years of World War I. When the United States entered the conflict in 1917, Webster volunteered with the Iowa National Guard as it prepared for deployment on the western front. His regiment would be part of the Forty-Second Rainbow Division, one of the first American units to arrive in France. Websters accounts, rendered in words and pictures, capture the daily life of a citizen-soldier who trained in stateside camps, traversed the submarine-infested waters of the Atlantic Ocean, fought in muddy trenches, and recovered in hospitals from poisonous gas exposure. Webster suffered a mortal wound during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in 1918, when he placed a fellow soldiers safety before his own.

Websters illustrations for the Des Moines Capital helped readers of the time learn what American soldiers were experiencing over there by bringing news from the western front to the home front. For nearly ninety years following his death, Websters family treasured his collection of artwork and writings before donating it to the Iowa Gold Star Military Museum at Camp Dodge, where it resides today. This wartime assemblage is amplified by Orwigs enlightening commentary based on extensive research that places Websters story within the wider narrative of American involvement in the war to end all wars.
Дополнительное описание: First World War

Somewhere Over There: The Letters, Diary, and Artwork of a World War I Corporal, Webster Francis H.