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A youth in the Meuse-Argonne : a memoir, 1917-1918

"A Youth in the Meuse-Argonne is a first-hand account of World War I through the eyes of an enlisted soldier. William S. Triplet was a seventeen-year-old junior in high school when, on April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked for a declaration of war. Triplet was eighteen months short of being of legal enlistment age, but the army didn't check birth certificates
Print Book, English, ©2000
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Mo., ©2000