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AEF experience
all quiet on the western front
American Expeditionary Force
American war
anti-war novel
Author_William March
Belleau Wood
brutality of war
Category=FJM
combat
Criox de Guerre
Distinguished Service Cross
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loss of innocence
Marines
multi-perspective
narrative protest
Navy Cross
personal accounts
protest novel
psychological issues
realistic war portrayal
soldier perspective
trauma
US Marines in WWI
vignettes
war fiction
war narratives
war storytelling
war testimony
WWI fiction
WWI trench warfare
Product details
- ISBN 9780817304805
- Weight: 322g
- Dimensions: 133 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 24 Oct 1989
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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With an Introduction by Philip D. Beidler This book was originally published in 1933. It is the first novel by William March, pen name for William Edward Campbell. Stemming directly from the author's experiences with the U.S. Marines in France during World War I, the book consists of 113 sketches, or chapters, tracing the fictional Company K's war exploits and providing an emotional history of the men of the company that extends beyond the boundaries of the war itself. William Edward Campbell served courageously in France as evidenced by his chestful of medals and certificates, including the Croix de Guerre, the Distinguished Service Cross, and the Navy Cross. However, without the medals and citations we would know of his bravery. For it is clear in the pages of Company K that this book was written by a man who had been to war, who had clearly seen his share of the worst of it, who had somehow survived, and who had committed himself afterward to the new bravery of sense-making embodied in the creation of major literary art. It is of that bravery that we still have the record of magnificent achievement, the brave terrible gift of Company K.
A native of Mobile, AL, William March (1893-1954) studied law at The University of Alabama. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I, he worked as an executive with the Waterman Steamship Corporation and published novels and short stories. Writer and critic Alistair Cooke described March as 'the unrecognized genius of our time.' Philip D. Beidler is Professor of English at The University of Alabama and author of Rewriting America: Vietnam Authors in their Generation.
