Through the Wheat: A Novel of the World War I Marines Staff Recommended July 1914 tells the gripping

July 1914 tells the gripping story of the month that changed the course of the 20th century

compelling prose and enlivened with extraordinarily vivid photographs and detailed maps

he advocated immediate specialist surgery for the direst wounds

a hundred years later

Through the Wheat: A Novel of the World War I Marines Staff Recommended July 1914 tells the grippingDescription 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