Through The Wheat

Having read thousands of pages on Revolutionary and Civil War history, in this Centennial year of World War I, I decided it was time to read some more history. After reading several books on the Great War, I came to Through the Wheat. This book has a history in my family and there on page 25, I foun......more

Through the Wheat joins several other highly regarded war-novels on my bookshelf. A common denominator among many of these, including Through the Wheat, is an author who survived the war about which they write (WW1 here). Such experience gives their writing an authenticity that lay authors struggle......more

Pretty good read, I found it a bit hard to follow at times and a bit slow in the beginning however, it does a great job describing the horrors of WWI and the the things combat can do to a man mentally and physically. I would encourage anyone who is interested in the Marine Corps or WWI to give it a......more

Thomas Alexander Boyd was a 1920's Lost Generation writer and contemporary of Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. While he shared their literary interests, amoral materialist worldview and leftist politics, Boyd was a bit of a literary one-hit wonder best known for this novel,......more