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* Read ^ Company K (Library Alabama Classics) by William March Ð eBook or Kindle ePUB. Company K (Library Alabama Classics) BeidlerThis book was originally published in 1933. It is of that bravery that we still have the record of magnificent achievement, the brave terrible gift of Company K.. Stemming directly from the author's experiences with the U.S. Marines in France during World War I, the book consists of 113 sketches, or chapters, tracing the fictional Company K's war exploits and providing an emotional history of the men of the company that extends beyond the boundaries of the war itself.William Edward Ca
| Title | : | Company K (Library Alabama Classics) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.30 (798 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0817304800 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-20 |
| Language | : | English |
a surprisingly modern old book This edition of "Company K," by William March (a native of Mobile, graduate of The University of Alabama's law school, and WW I veteran), is one in a series called The Library of Alabama Classics, and it warrants its status as a classic. It's a beautiful little book, nicely typeset in a somewhat nostalgic manner, and deserves to be better known than it is--as does its author. Kudos to Alabama's UP for making this book available in paperback for a wide audience.The book, first published in 1933, is a collection of short first-person narratives by the members of a company caught in the frontline in the . "An underrated classic" according to Martin V. Hanson. Excellent book! War presented as it really was by a gifted author who experienced it! I started reading and was completely captivated, finishing the whole book in a single evening! The book consists of many short vignettes, each narrated by a soldier in company K, in which the soldier relates a particular experience. Some soldiers describe the same experience from different viewpoints. By this means the story is advanced from the beginning of the war to the end, and war itself is presented in all it's ugliness, cruelty, banality, and stupidity. American officers order the murder of prisoners, an exhau. Almost a Classic Stephen M. Kerwick March makes a compelling case in this text that he should be well entrenched in the second tier of American authors, if not the first. His WWI recollections do a fine job of bringing out the terrors and guilts of a war long forgotton and little remembered, except for the short period of the Twenties. If there is any shortcoming in this fine work, it is that it draws far too much from Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthologies. My guess is that March, who was trained as a lawyer like Masters (a former partner of the unethical () Clarence Darrow) grasped onto Masters' then-current work . It's not a hero
BeidlerThis book was originally published in 1933. It is of that bravery that we still have the record of magnificent achievement, the brave terrible gift of Company K.. Stemming directly from the author's experiences with the U.S. Marines in France during World War I, the book consists of 113 sketches, or chapters, tracing the fictional Company K's war exploits and providing an emotional history of the men of the company that extends beyond the boundaries of the war itself.William Edward Ca
“A rich novel, the outstanding virtues of March’s work are those of complete lack of sentimentality and routine romanticism, of a dramatic gift constantly heightened and sharpened by eloquence of understatement.” —New York Times
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