The listing, Vintage 1929 WWI Book - History and Rhymes of the Lost Battalion by Pvt McCollum has ended.
History and Rhymes of the Lost Battalion, 1929. Reprint - "six hundredth thousand" (as stated upon copyright page).
140 pages.
Paperback; H 17.75cm x L 13.25cm.
Dark brown paper covers, soiled.
Initial unpaged leaf has half-title and b/w portrait image of Lost Battalion commander Lt. Col. Charles W. Whittlesey
Foldout having b/w photograph image of the Lost Battalion itself.
Pages are clean and binding unattached from its glue but the book itself is intact except for the pictures that are attached to the binding
A very good copy.
Features poetry by Lee Charles McCollum and a brief history of the WWI Lost Battalion which was comprised of nine units of the United States 77th Division who were cut off and surrounded by German forces during a planned advance in the Argonne Forest in October 1918.
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