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I Remember The Last War - (Original Version, Restored) (Paperback)
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I Remember The Last War - (Original Version, Restored) (Paperback)
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Loot Price R407
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"I was phenomenally lucky, so I will tell our story, will try to
tell you something of what happened over there. There have been war
books written by other men who were better writers than I-more
fitted to place what they saw upon the printed page. But I don't
believe a book about America's participation in the war has been
written by a man who spent days, weeks and months in intensive
fighting at or in front of the front, as my comrades and I did.
There is nothing beautiful or particularly glorious about this
story. I have told it as well as I could, but have been able to
give you only a faint idea of the conditions we encountered during
the five worst days any unit of the American army experienced in
France-the five days of our battle of Fismette. You could fully
appreciate its horrors only if you were there. Never was a group of
men harder pressed by superior forces of the enemy, or more ill
equipped to fight off those attacks than were we. No artillery
support during most of the fighting, no trench mortars, no hand or
rifle grenades, just a moderate amount of pistol, rifle and machine
gun ammunition. No food, proper medical attention, or the
opportunity to bury the dead. Our men in that battle, the handful
who held the front of the front lines, covered themselves with
undying glory. The telling of this story will give a better idea of
what we did in France than have other war books I have seen. It
tells the unvarnished truth about how we lived, slept, hiked,
fought and died over there. There is another generation of men
since those distant days of 1918. If this book does its part in
showing them the folly, the uselessness, the tragedy of war, I'll
feel well repaid for the time I spent in writing it." -Bob Hoffman
This is a 6" by 9" original version, restored and re-formatted
edition of Bob Hoffman's 1940 classic. The text remains exactly as
written. Visit our website and see our many books at
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