Duty, Terror and Survival

Download or read book Duty, Terror and Survival written by William Welch and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: April 1917, 18-year-old Harold W. Pierce of Youngsville, Pennsylvania, quit high school and enlisted in the Army National Guard, beginning a journey that would take him and his brother to the battlefields of France. There, they endured gas attacks, machine gun fire, heavy artillery barrages, mind-numbing marches, lice, and hunger. In his diary, Pierce describes it all. Those descriptions and his insight will fascinate readers, allowing them to experience much of what the doughboys of World War One went through from Chateau Thierry to the Meuse-Argonne, and the toll it took.First published in 1979 in serialized form, this edition of his diary includes some of the combat art Pierce produced in the years after the war, photos of many of the men he mentions, and maps.