The World War I diary of José de la Luz Sáenz /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sáenz, José de la Luz, 1888-1953 (Author)
Other Authors: Zamora, Emilio (Translator, Editor), Maya, Ben, -2012 (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
Series:C.A. Brannen series ; no. 13.
Subjects:
Table of 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.