Holmes, R. Darby
A Yankee In The Trenches
Little, Brown & Company
Boston
1918

214 pp

Estimated Value: $6 - $12

Account of a Bostonian who served with the British Army in the trenches through the Battle Of The Somme.  This well written, simply told account gives good descriptions of an air battle as viewed from below and the early use of advancing infantry supported by tanks.

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