Jay Smith, William | Army Brat : a memoir

Relié en bon état ; couverture rigide un peu salie avec sa jaquette illustrée un peu défraîchie ; contient une dédicace ; quelques photographies noir et blanc ; LIVRE EN ANGLAIS ; SUJET : Military art and science ; "Few American writers have had an intimate knowledge of Army life, and then usually only in wartime. But the poet William Jay Smith grew up as the son of an enlisted man, a corporal in the Sixth Infantry Band. His father was not transferred from post to post, and so, as a former Army brat, Mr. Smith has a remarkably concentrated vision of the twenty years (1921-1941) spent in and around Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, on the west bank of the Mississippi, just south of St. Louis, at the time a post of major importance." ... (7D2)"