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Suddenly We Didn't Want to Die: Memoirs of a World War I Marine Paperback - 1996
by Mackin, Elton
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- Title Suddenly We Didn't Want to Die: Memoirs of a World War I Marine
- Author Mackin, Elton
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Presidio Press, Novato, CA, U.S.A.
- Date 1996-11-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0891415939_used
- ISBN 9780891415930 / 0891415939
- Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.47 x 5.56 x 0.79 in (21.51 x 14.12 x 2.01 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93010485
- Dewey Decimal Code 940.414
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From the rear cover
In the tradition of All Quiet on the Western Front, Elton E. Mackin's memoirs are a haunting portrayal of war as seen through the eyes of a highly decorated Marine Corps private who fought in every major World War I campaign in which the Marine Brigade participated - from Belleau Wood to the crossing of the Meuse on the eve of the Armistice. At age nineteen, Private Mackin joined the Marine Brigade's 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment on beleaguered Hill 142, where the Marines were fighting as part of the U.S. Army's 2d Infantry Division. The call soon went out for volunteers to serve as runners, carrying messages from headquarters to the front lines or guiding attacking units to the jumpoff point. Mackin accepted the challenge and became a member of what frontline marines called the "suicide squad". He miraculously survived some of the most vicious fighting of the war without serious injury - other than to his psyche. His narrative, written in a style evocative of the heyday of American literature, the 1920s and 1930s, is certain to become a classic in its own right. Mackin shares with the reader not just the horrors of war, but the subtle little everyday experiences that make the life of the combat soldier both tolerable and soul-shattering. Suddenly We Didn't Want to Die is a book that will leave you wondering how anyone can emerge from battle with sanity intact.