Sammy's Own War Story was there." With the Yanks on the Western Front, 1917-1919. By 0. Leroy Baldridge. Together—with verses by Hilmar B. Baukhage. Putnam's Sons.
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What a splendid title "I was there." What a glorious privilege to be able to say "I was there' there with the Yanks on the battlefields of France in the greatest adventure "the old Earth ever knew." "I was there' helping to smash the "impregnable" salient at St. Mihiel, driving the "Jerries" from the Argonne Forest and the dread heights of Montfauon to Sedan, and, deadliest of all, capturing Bellau Wood, whose sinister stumps still scar the sky at a hilton above: the Marne, to the Chateau-Thierry.
This stirring record, the joint work of two privates of the American Expeditionary Force, should pass permanently into every Yankee home and serve to bind closer the wartime friendship formed between the United States and the Allied nations of Europe, particularly with France. The Yanks at first. misunderstood: their French confederates., The latter "didn't seem quite game." But sharing smokes and wine, howsoever sour, and the sight of Poilu's irresistible "'strafing'"
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.