This collection of WWI sketches of the Fifth Marine Regiment is "forthright, unsparing, deeply felt but unsentimental, and reads like a house afire" (The Wall Street Journal). From a soldier who was there, here are first-hand accounts of combat and camaraderie during the Great War. In a series of stories and illustrations, Capt. John W. Thomason captures the bravery and gallantry of the leathernecks fighting the Germans in France-putting readers in the trenches, facing the staccato of rifle fire, feeling the pangs of starvation, and the demoralizing fatigue. This collection is a tribute to the men who lived and breathed the motto "Semper Fidelis", or "Always Faithful", those who made the ultimate sacrifice and those who made it out alive

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