The World War I diary of Jose de la Luz Sáenz
Sáenz, Jose de la Luz, 1888-1953,
The World War I diary of Jose de la Luz Sáenz [electronic resource] / edited and with an introduction by Emilio Zamora ; translated by Emilio Zamora with Ben Maya. - First edition. - College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - C.A. Brannen series ; number thirteen . - C.A. Brannen series ; no. 13. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Translation of: Los mexico-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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781623491512 1623491517
Sáenz, Jose de la Luz, 1888-1953.
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 90th --Biography.
World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Mexican American.
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, Mexican-American.
Civil rights workers--Texas--Biography.
Mexican Americans--Texas--Biography.
World War, 1914-1918--Regimental histories--United States.
Electronic books.
D570.3 90th / .S2413 2014
940.4/12730922
The World War I diary of Jose de la Luz Sáenz [electronic resource] / edited and with an introduction by Emilio Zamora ; translated by Emilio Zamora with Ben Maya. - First edition. - College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - C.A. Brannen series ; number thirteen . - C.A. Brannen series ; no. 13. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Translation of: Los mexico-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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781623491512 1623491517
Sáenz, Jose de la Luz, 1888-1953.
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 90th --Biography.
World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Mexican American.
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, Mexican-American.
Civil rights workers--Texas--Biography.
Mexican Americans--Texas--Biography.
World War, 1914-1918--Regimental histories--United States.
Electronic books.
D570.3 90th / .S2413 2014
940.4/12730922