In the Trenches...

Sean Smith, who had written Rank Absurdity: An Irreverent Military Memoir, wrote a book about World War One service titled Even a Dog Enlists, Why Not You?: Family, History, and the First World War.  

Originally intended as a more sprawling work documenting his family's military service in the 20th Century, it instead focused in on the general American experience of the War to End All Wars, using the records of his ancestors who served as an infantryman, in the Quartermaster Corps, and as a sailor abord one of the little converted yachts of the US Navy's "suicide fleet" that escorted troopships to France.

A very enjoyable read. (Unsurprising, as I've been a fan of his prose since the old gun board days at the dawn of the millennium.) Recommend.

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