Over there
Subtitle: a marine in the Great War
By: by Carl Andrew Brannen ; preface and annotation by Rolfe L. Hillman, Jr. and Peter F. Owen ; afterword by J.P. Brannen.
Contributors: Hillman, Rolfe L.; Owen, Peter F.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: C.A. Brannen series ;; no. 1
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
Subjects: Brannen, Carl Andrew, b. 1899.; United States. Marine Corps. Marine Brigade, 4th. Regiment, 6th. Company, 80th -- History.; United States. Marine Corps -- Biography.; World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- France.; World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, American.; Marines -- United States -- Biography.
Description: "When America declared war in 1917, I was a few months past eighteen years of age and just finishing my first year in college. By the time I was to reenter in the fall for the second year, war activities were [under way] on a large scale. Men were going into some branch of the service on all sides.

I felt that my family should do their bit in uniform, and my age designated me as the most appropriate one." This Texas A & M College student was Carl Andrew Brannen; these are his memoirs of a time when boys became men and your country became your life.

Complemented with a unique set of photographs by the author's son that retrace his father's military campaigns and insightful annotations by two military figures, Over There is a highly personal account, presented from an enlisted man's perspective of the battle fronts of Belleau Woods in the Chateau-Thierry sector, Soissons, Pont-a-Mousson, St. Mihiel, Blanc Mont Ridge, and the Meuse-Argonne battle.

As a first hand commentary and a social document of life in the trenches during World War I, it is a useful contribution to military history. Brannen's personal accounts will touch and fascinate all those interested in World War I.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-158) and index.