An American on the Western Front (ePub)
The First World War Letters of Arthur Clifford Kimber, 1917-18
(Sprache: Englisch)
This is the remarkable story of the American First World War serviceman Arthur Clifford Kimber. When his country entered the Great War in 1917, Kimber left Stanford University to carry the first official American flag to the Western Front. Fired by idealism...
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This is the remarkable story of the American First World War serviceman Arthur Clifford Kimber. When his country entered the Great War in 1917, Kimber left Stanford University to carry the first official American flag to the Western Front. Fired by idealism for the French cause, the young student initially acted as a volunteer ambulance driver, before training as a pilot and taking part in dogfights against 'the Boche'. His letters home give a vivid picture of what Kimber witnessed on his journey from Palo Alto, California to the front in France: keen-eyed descriptions of New York as it prepared for the forthcoming conflict, the privations of wartime Britain and France, and encounters with former president Theodore Roosevelt and Hollywood actress Lillian Gish. Kimber details his exhilaration, his everyday concerns and his horror as he adapts to an active wartime role. Arthur Clifford Kimber was one of the first Americans on the front line after the entry of the US into the war and, tragically, also one of the last to be buried there - killed in action just a few weeks before the end of the war. Here, his frank letters to his mother and brothers, compiled, edited and put in context by Patrick Gregory and Elizabeth Nurser, are published for the first time.
Autoren-Porträt von Patrick Gregory, Elizabeth Nurser
Arthur Clifford Kimber was a senior at Stanford when he offered himself to France for war service. Of his death, his colonel, E C Whitehead, has written: 'Arthur Kimber, of the 22nd Aero Squadron, who was killed in action September 26th, stands out markedly as one of the bravest Americans that fought in this war.' He is linked to the distinctive honour of bearing the first official American flag to France after the United States entered the Great War.
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- Autoren: Patrick Gregory , Elizabeth Nurser
- 2016, 352 Seiten, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Gregory, Patrick
- Verlag: The History Press
- ISBN-10: 0750969105
- ISBN-13: 9780750969109
- Erscheinungsdatum: 07.07.2016
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