| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
viii, 513 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
C.A. Brannen series ; number thirteen |
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C.A. Brannen series ; no. 13.
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| Note |
Translation of: Los méxico-americanos en la Gran Guerra: y su contingente en pró de la democracia, la humanidad y la justicia, first published in original Spanish in San Antonio by Artes Gráficas, 1933. |
| Contents |
Prologue -- My personal diary -- Reporting at New Braunfels -- The brigade station -- Camp Travis -- France -- How Carrejo and four others died -- A horrible night in "no man's land" -- Toul, Choloy, and Rampondt -- Moving across the rubble of the battlefield to reach the enemy and occupy the line of fire: Montfaucon and Dead Man's Hill -- Days and nights in a foxhole in Romagne -- How we destroyed Hindenburg's impregnable trenches -- Simón González and others -- Hipólito Jasso receives a shrapnel wound -- Dark night, cold night, horrible night in Villers-devant-Dun -- Armistice day -- Memorable march from Pont-Sassy, France -- Memories of the European War, our last campaign, five days and nights -- Thanksgiving and then to Germany -- In Zeltingen, Alemania, by the Moselle -- Mexican Americans attend school -- The Texans and Oklahomans: an occasion for drawing on a postcard -- Prodding that produces favorable results -- Article of War no. 105 and 2,175 bottles of champagne -- A portrait of Zeltingen -- On the last cattle train and cars 40 and 8 -- The Mongolia, American steamship -- How Boston receives us -- Demobilizing the 90th Division -- Epilogue: the voice of a claim that demands justice -- To the memory of the Mexican American heroes who died in the Great World War defending the democratic principles of the American Union -- List of honor -- Notes. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-499) and index. |
| Language |
Translated from the Spanish. |
| Subject |
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 90th -- Biography.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories -- United States.
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Sáenz, José de la Luz, 1888-1953.
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Mexican Americans -- Texas -- Biography.
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Civil rights workers -- Texas -- Biography.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, Mexican-American.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Mexican American.
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| Added Author |
Zamora, Emilio, translator, editor.
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Maya, Ben, -2012., translator.
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| Added Title |
México-americanos en la Gran Guerra. English
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| ISBN |
9781623491130 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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1623491134 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9781623491147 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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1623491142 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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