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Thomas Boyd

Through the Wheat: A Novel

A Library of America eBook Classic

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A neglected classic offers an unflinching depiction of the physical and psychological cost of modern warfare.For his 1923 novel Through the Wheat Thomas Boyd drew on his own experiences with the Marines at Belleau Wood, Soissons, and St. Mihiel to tell the story of William Hicks, an infantryman fighting in France in 1918. Hicks endures hunger, thirst, cold, heat, and fatigue as his platoon advances through dense woods and open fields in the face of hidden machine guns and sudden artillery bombardments, experiencing alternating states of fear, nausea, fury, and apathy until he becomes impervious to the demands of the dead and the living. When… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-59853-595-2
  • EAN: 9781598535952
  • Produktnummer: 26856009
  • Verlag: Library of America
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 155 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 807 KB

Über den Autor


Thomas Alexander Boyd (1898-1935) was born in Defiance, Ohio. While still in school, he enlisted in the US Marine Corps and saw service in France, where he was the victim of a gas attack in 1918. He later wrote for newspapers in Minneapolis and St. Paul, and was the author of numerous novels, stories, and historical biographies.

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