Angered by the sinking of the Lusitania, Empey crossed to England and enlisted in the British Army before the United States entered the war. He describes training, billets, mud, rats, shells, rations, trench raids and machine-gun work on the Western Front until he was badly wounded, and adds a dictionary of Tommy’s trench slang.
A bestselling first-hand account of 1917 that told Americans what the war was really like. Download the free EPUB.