Through the Wheat: A Novel of the World War I Marines Staff Recommended compelling prose and enlivened with

compelling prose and enlivened with extraordinarily vivid photographs and detailed maps

July 1914 tells the gripping story of the month that changed the course of the 20th century

WORLD WAR I takes us from the first shots in Sarajevo to the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles and through every bunker

When he returns home after 22 months of service

by Christopher Capozzola

Through the Wheat: A Novel of the World War I Marines Staff Recommended compelling prose and enlivened withDescription by Thomas Boyd Paperback Fresh out of a Defiance, Ohio, high school, Thomas Boyd (18981935) joined the Marines to serve his country in the patriotic heat of the spring of 1917. In 1919 he came home from the war with a Croix de Guerre and a desire to write. He joined the St. Paul News as a journalist and opened a bookstore, whose patrons included F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis. Through the Wheat appeared to immediate acclaim, with