Lest We Forget: World War I and New Mexico

by David V Holtby and Holtby

Book Overview

More than 14,000 New Mexicans served in uniform during World War I, and thousands more contributed to the American home front. Yet today in New Mexico, as elsewhere, the Great War and the lives it affected are scarcely remembered. Lest We Forget confronts that amnesia. The first detailed study to describe New Mexico's wartime mobilization, its soldiers' combat experiences, and its veterans' postwar lives, the book offers a poignant account of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806160225
• ISBN13: 9780806160221
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"