The Glory of the Coming - Americans In Action by Irvin Cobb - 1st Ed 1918 WWI

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The Glory of the Coming - Americans In Action by Irvin Cobb - 1st Edition 1918 World War One
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The Glory of the Coming - What mine eyes have seen of Americans in action in this year of grace and allied endeavor.
This book is made up of articles written abroad in the spring and summer of 1918 and cabled or mailed back to US for publication. The author was an eye witness of the great war in all its stages, but this volume recounts principally the arrival of the American Expeditionary Forces, from its first few struggling troops to the mighty army that we eventually had in France.
Irwin S. Cobb, who found himself many times in the neighborhood of heavy artillery, tells in 'The Glory of the Coming' of the tremendous respect he had for a French battery of nine-inch heavies: 'Every time that one of the nine-inchers spewed its bellyful of high explosives forth, the sound of it dominated and overmastered all other sounds. First there was a crash - a crash so great that our inadequate tongue yields neither adjective nor noun fitly to comprehend it, the trouble being that the language has not kept step with the developments of artillery in this war. Our dictionary is going to need an overhauling when this job of licking Germany is finished.' Cobb's name is among the nominations to the Legion of Honor.
Book is in very good condition for over 100 years old. Hardcover has some slight wear at bottom.
Inside cover has name of first owner dated 1919. Also stamped is “Ursuline Prague Library Santa Rosa Calif”.
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