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.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Series: C.A. Brannen series ; no. 13. | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2014. 2015)Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (pages cm.)ISBN:- 9781623491512
- 1623491517
- Mexico-americanos en la Gran Guerra. English
- 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
- Sáenz, Jose de la Luz, 1888-1953
- 940.4/12730922 23
- D570.3 90th .S2413 2014
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.
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