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The World War I diary of José de la Luz Sáenz
Uniform Title
México-americanos en la Gran Guerra. English
Title
The World War I diary of José de la Luz Sáenz / edited and with an introduction by Emilio Zamora ; translated by Emilio Zamora with Ben Maya.
ISBN
9781623491147 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1623491142 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Edition
First edition.
Publication
College Station, Texas : Texas A&M University Press, [2014]
Physical Description
viii, 513 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Notes
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.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 13, 2014
Series
C.A. Brannen series ; number thirteen
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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