Through the Wheat: A Novel of the World War I Marines

by Thomas Boyd

Book Overview

Fresh out of a Defiance, Ohio, high school, Thomas Boyd (1898-1935) joined the Marines to serve his country in the patriotic heat of the spring of 1917. In 1919 he came home from the war with a Croix de Guerre and a desire to write. He joined the St. Paul News as a journalist and opened a bookstore, whose patrons included F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis. Through the Wheat appeared to immediate acclaim, with F. Scott Fitzgerald...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803261683
• ISBN13: 9780803261686
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"