On the Western Front with the Rainbow Division: A World War I Diary

by E. Bruce Geelhoed and Vernon E. Kniptash

Book Overview

An ordinary soldier's day-by-day account of the Great War

Vernon E. Kniptash, an Indiana national guardsman who served in the Rainbow Division during World War I, observed firsthand some of the Great War's fiercest fighting. As a radio operator with the Headquarters Company of the 150th Field Artillery, he was in constant contact with French and British forces as well as with American troops, and thus gained a broad perspective on the hostilities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806140321
• ISBN13: 9780806140322
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.0"