Floyd Gibbons of the Chicago Tribune was aboard the liner Laconia when a U-boat sank it in 1917, and he went on to cover the American Expeditionary Forces from Pershing’s arrival onward. He describes training camps, the first American shot fired in the war, the first American sector and the fighting in which he himself was badly wounded.
Vivid, breathless frontline journalism and a classic American account of 1917–18. Download the free EPUB.