WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Washington County, Utah)

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"Nels Anderson's World War I Diary"

edited by Allan Kent Powell, forward by Charles S. Peterson

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This book is a detailed account by a Mormon sociologist of his year as an enlisted man serving
in Europe during World War I. It gives a very personal view into what that life was like.

336 Pages with 19 black & white photos and 2 maps, 6" x 9" x ?"
Published by the University of Utah Press, 2013
ISBN-10: 1-60781-256-8 (eBook)
ISBN-13: 978-1-60781-255-5 (hardbound)
ISBN-13: 978-1-60781-256-2 (eBook)

AVAILABILITY

This book can be purchased in hardbound or eBook forms from The University of Utah Press

It is also available in the Washington County Library. Call number 940.4 Anderson.
The Val A.Browning Library at Dixie State University has one copy in the stacks
and another in special collections. Call number D 570.9 .A67 2013.

Abstracts are available at Project MUSE - Nels Anderson's World War I Diary

COVER

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Forward by Charles S. Peterson
Preface
Introduction
Camp Mills, New York, June 1918
Crossing the Atlantic, June 1918
England, June 1981
Arrival in France, June 1918
Training in Humberville, July 1918
Up to the Front, August 1918
The St. Mihiel Offensive, September 1918
The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, October 1918
War's End. November 1918
Through Belgium and Luxembourg, November-December 1918
Germany, December 1918 - March 1919
Back to France, March 2019
School in Montpellier, March-April 1919
Notes, April-August 1919
Notes

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Illustractions follow page 38

REFERENCES

Book review: Anderson diary offers a personal glimpse of an Mormon soldier during World War I
by Rosemarie Howard
Deseret News, July 27, 2013