Through the Wheat: A Novel of the World War I Marines Staff Recommended When he returns home after

When he returns home after 22 months of service

a hundred years later

by Christopher Capozzola

he advocated immediate specialist surgery for the direst wounds

struggle to keep their hands from freezing in open-air cockpits

Through the Wheat: A Novel of the World War I Marines Staff Recommended When he returns home afterDescription by Thomas Boyd Paperback Fresh out of a Defiance, Ohio, high school, Thomas Boyd (18981935) joined the Marines to serve his country in the patriotic heat of the spring of 1917. In 1919 he came home from the war with a Croix de Guerre and a desire to write. He joined the St. Paul News as a journalist and opened a bookstore, whose patrons included F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis. Through the Wheat appeared to immediate acclaim, with