Through the Wheat: A Novel of the World War I Marines Staff Recommended " Composed in short chapters

" Composed in short chapters that move between the home front and the front lines

compelling prose and enlivened with extraordinarily vivid photographs and detailed maps

he advocated immediate specialist surgery for the direst wounds

an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger’s U-boat

WORLD WAR I takes us from the first shots in Sarajevo to the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles and through every bunker

Through the Wheat: A Novel of the World War I Marines Staff Recommended " Composed in short chaptersDescription by Thomas Boyd Paperback Fresh out of a Defiance, Ohio, high school, Thomas Boyd (18981935) joined the Marines to serve his country in the patriotic heat of the spring of 1917. In 1919 he came home from the war with a Croix de Guerre and a desire to write. He joined the St. Paul News as a journalist and opened a bookstore, whose patrons included F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis. Through the Wheat appeared to immediate acclaim, with