Sooner Doughboys Write Home: The University of Oklahoma and World War I - David W. Levy

Descriere YEO:

Sooner Doughboys Write Home: The - Disponibil la libris.ro

Pe YEO găsești Sooner Doughboys Write Home: The de la David W. Levy, în categoria History.

Indiferent de nevoile tale, Sooner Doughboys Write Home: The University of Oklahoma and World War I - David W. Levy din categoria History îți poate aduce un echilibru perfect între calitate și preț, cu avantaje practice și moderne.

Preț: 250.69 Lei

Caracteristicile produsului Sooner Doughboys Write Home: The

• Brand: David W. Levy
• Categoria: History
• Magazin: libris.ro
• Ultima actualizare: 18-09-2025 01:36:55

Comandă Sooner Doughboys Write Home: The Online, Simplu și Rapid

Prin intermediul platformei YEO, poți comanda Sooner Doughboys Write Home: The de la libris.ro rapid și în siguranță. Bucură-te de o experiență de cumpărături online optimizată și descoperă cele mai bune oferte actualizate constant.

Descriere magazin:
Days before the armistice was signed ending World War I, Stratton D. Brooks, third president of the University of Oklahoma, sent a letter to every student, former student, and faculty member serving in the armed forces. He had a request: would each man write a letter in reply, describing his experiences and impressions during his wartime service? Dozens of them responded in late 1918 and early 1919. Now, more than a century later, historian David W. Levy has selected and annotated fifty-three of these letters. Sooner Doughboys Write Home is a richly detailed-and often poignant-record of what these young men thought about the war and what they witnessed firsthand. As Levy explains in his thorough introduction, most of these young men, or doughboys as they were called, came from small Oklahoma towns and farms. Suddenly thrust into strange and often dangerous circumstances after the United States entered the war in 1917, they betray in their letters an appealing innocence of this wider world. For some of them, it is a world of dreary inactivity and boredom, punctuated by moments of breathtaking violence and danger. Others marvel at sights in Paris and in Germany. All the while, they keep a sharp eye out for their Sooner classmates from Norman, eager to share a quick drink or hurried chat. Although these Sooner doughboys, as Levy acknowledges, were not ordinary, given their privileged status as college students, they observed the war from the field and not from some more remote vantage point. Drawing on his expertise as an American historian and his extensive knowledge of the university\'s history, Levy identifies and explains in ample footnotes the numerous people and places mentioned by the letter writers. In so doing, he ties the experience of everyday Oklahomans to a global conflict that changed the course of history.