This book is a detailed (day-to-day) account of Pfc. Raymond Whitney Maker's service in France during World War 1. He was a prolific letter writer and this book is a collection of his letters written to his sister, Eva, from October 1917 until April 1919, when the 26th Infantry "Yankee" Division returned from France.
Raymond was a "wireman" and had the responsibility of connecting landlines between infantry units, usually disrupted by German artillery barrages. He fought at Belleau Wood, and was gassed at Chateau Thierry, and wounded outside of Verdun, in 1918.
His letters and diary entries describe the day-to day existence of a young soldier, far away from home, and enduring the brutal realities of trench warfare.
