A Couple of old WW I titles that are favorites of mine, and in some way influenced my thinking.
The Battle for Europe: 1918 by H. Essame. Charles Scribners Son's, New York, 1972. 216pp, Index.
A nice short "popular" account of the time, I probably bought and read it in 1976 (It still has an Edward McKay price sticker inside, a bookstore in Fayetteville, North Carolina). Covers the period from the Kaiser's Offensive to the end of the war, mostly from the British perspective. The author himself and his viewpoint are much closer to how the participants probably viewed the events than anything you will find in current "Mainstream" literature about the period.
The Unknown Soldiers: Black American Troops in World War I. by Arthur E. Barbeau and Florette Henri. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1974. 279 pages, Index, Illus.
Another "Find"; I am not sure when I acquired this, probably as a mail order discount book (1981?), but it is not marked as a remainder. This book certainly influenced my thinking on the subject, I hesitate to call it an "Early" work, but it is not loaded with the scholarly analysis modern titles tend to be lumbered with. Worth seeking out because when it was written, these events were within living memory, closer to the authors than WW II is to most people living now. Certainly by this time ever National Guard and Army Reserve center had an "Army Heritage" poster featuring the (Black) 369th Infantry in action.
Saturday, November 23, 2013
The Kennedy Assasination
Fifty years ago (Yesterday)
(oops)
Well, since we are all (maybe) going to live forever here in cyberspace, what I remember, and why.
It was my Birthday (4th Grade?) We were munching my Birthday treat I had brought in (Ice Cream); Someone came in from another class and told us the President had Been Shot. Kind of put a damper on the rest of the day, I recall lying in front of the console stereo listening to the Radio during what was supposed to have been my party.
And I few days later, I may have seen the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald live on the second (Old, B&W) TV in the Basement. Not that I had a clue what it meant at the time, most interesting at this remove of how limited our choices of TV were even in a "Major" market like Detroit (we lived in Birmingham). No cable, MTV or DVD player, you watched one of the Network channels or the couple of independents there might have been in the market.
(oops)
Well, since we are all (maybe) going to live forever here in cyberspace, what I remember, and why.
It was my Birthday (4th Grade?) We were munching my Birthday treat I had brought in (Ice Cream); Someone came in from another class and told us the President had Been Shot. Kind of put a damper on the rest of the day, I recall lying in front of the console stereo listening to the Radio during what was supposed to have been my party.
And I few days later, I may have seen the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald live on the second (Old, B&W) TV in the Basement. Not that I had a clue what it meant at the time, most interesting at this remove of how limited our choices of TV were even in a "Major" market like Detroit (we lived in Birmingham). No cable, MTV or DVD player, you watched one of the Network channels or the couple of independents there might have been in the market.
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