Millie Ragosta, Michele R. Fritz, C. Earl Baker
Doughboy's Diary
language
(Burd Street Press March 14, 2015)
-PRAISE FOR DOUGHBOY' S DIARY-
Baker has the gift of natural storytelling ....he succeeded in finding the voice and point of view of the young man he was in 1917-1918....his account has all the freshness and immediacy of the experience as it unfolded. A fading chapter of American history springs to life... Nancy S. Shedd, Huntingdon County Historian
A fascinating account giving insight and great human interest to a neglected time in our history.
Gladys C. Murray, Centre County Library and Historical Museum
...important book ...documents the 28th Division of the Pennsylvania Na tional Guard ..."Zeb"Baker brings to life the essentia l part Company F from Huntingdon , Pennsylvania played in the war and specifica lly in the Battle of Argonne ....does this with accuracy through his poetic writing ...lively characterizat ions...well documented account.
Robert W. Ott, D.Ed. , FRSA, FPAEA , Director, The Bellefonte Mu seum
-From the Foreword -
Almost like an actor waiting in the wings, Franci sco "Panch o" Villa , a two-penny Mexican revolutionary rejected by his own nation, appeared on the World War I scene. On March 9, 1916, at German y's instigation , he crossed the bord er between Mexico and the United States, burned Columbi a, New Mexico, and killed some of the citi zens in a ploy to divert President Woodrow Wilson from throwing America 's strength into the European war on the side of the Allies.The invasion , like nothing so much as a cockroach attacking an eagle, backfired on Germany in a big way; it gave us the perfect reason for mobilizing and training men for war, ostensibly against the laugh able clown, Pancho Villa, but, ultimately, against the Central Powers in Europe.
General John Pershing supervised the training of America 's young manhood for war. From all over America , volunteer regiments converged on Texas to prepare for war.
I was one of those volunteers who, with my comrades from Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, formed Company F of the 28th Division. As I write this in 1979, I am 86 years old and obsessed with telling what I remember of my fallen comrades before I, too, "go west."
Baker has the gift of natural storytelling ....he succeeded in finding the voice and point of view of the young man he was in 1917-1918....his account has all the freshness and immediacy of the experience as it unfolded. A fading chapter of American history springs to life... Nancy S. Shedd, Huntingdon County Historian
A fascinating account giving insight and great human interest to a neglected time in our history.
Gladys C. Murray, Centre County Library and Historical Museum
...important book ...documents the 28th Division of the Pennsylvania Na tional Guard ..."Zeb"Baker brings to life the essentia l part Company F from Huntingdon , Pennsylvania played in the war and specifica lly in the Battle of Argonne ....does this with accuracy through his poetic writing ...lively characterizat ions...well documented account.
Robert W. Ott, D.Ed. , FRSA, FPAEA , Director, The Bellefonte Mu seum
-From the Foreword -
Almost like an actor waiting in the wings, Franci sco "Panch o" Villa , a two-penny Mexican revolutionary rejected by his own nation, appeared on the World War I scene. On March 9, 1916, at German y's instigation , he crossed the bord er between Mexico and the United States, burned Columbi a, New Mexico, and killed some of the citi zens in a ploy to divert President Woodrow Wilson from throwing America 's strength into the European war on the side of the Allies.The invasion , like nothing so much as a cockroach attacking an eagle, backfired on Germany in a big way; it gave us the perfect reason for mobilizing and training men for war, ostensibly against the laugh able clown, Pancho Villa, but, ultimately, against the Central Powers in Europe.
General John Pershing supervised the training of America 's young manhood for war. From all over America , volunteer regiments converged on Texas to prepare for war.
I was one of those volunteers who, with my comrades from Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, formed Company F of the 28th Division. As I write this in 1979, I am 86 years old and obsessed with telling what I remember of my fallen comrades before I, too, "go west."