Dere Mable: Love Letters of a Rookie (WWI Centenary Series). Streeter Edward

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      Dere Mable

      LOVE LETTERS OF A ROOKIE

      BY

      EDWARD STREETER

      With 35 Illustrations In Black-And-White By

      G. William Breck

      Copyright © 2016 Read Books Ltd.

      This book is copyright and may not be

      reproduced or copied in any way without

      the express permission of the publisher in writing

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      Illustration List

       Image 1. American troops on the march

       Mable

       “The Only Place There Flat Is On The Map”

       “You Can Read Em To Your Granchildren”

       “You Walk A Post But There Aint No Post”

       “I Just Found It In My Bakin Can”

       “I Dont Like Any Sargeant”

       “I Dont Care Much For Horses, They Feels The Same Way About Me”

       “Max Glucos What Lives On The Next Cot”

       “Smith Are You Laffin At Me?”

       “One Day It’s Our Teeth”

       “Remember Me To Your Mother”

       “Not The Kind Your Father Has”

       “I Wear Them Every Night Over My Uniform”

       “I Been Made An Officer”

       “Somebodied Set A Trunk On The Turky”

       “Built Like The Leg Of A Sailurs Trowsers”

       “You Paint A Horse Black And White Stripes”

       “I Spent Mine Doin Kitchen Police”

       “I Wish That Hired Girl Could Come Down”

       “A Croquette Is A French Society Woman”

       “I Sat Next To A Colonels Wife

       “Men Hate To Be Watched While They Are Freezin”

       “I Had A Reputashun For A Devil With The Wimen”

       “It Seemed To Depres Them Awful”

       “If I Catch One Of Those Ailin Enemies Windin Up Your Victrola”

       “Stuck My Head Out Of The Blankets”

       “When I Looked In The Tin Mirror I Thought I Was Starvin”

       “They Come Round And Watch You Eat It.”

       “Army Food Always Runs”

       “He Smokes Cigarets Something Awful”

       “I Poured Some Oil Out Of His Lamp”

       “I Even Got Mud In My Hair”

       “The Water Comes Through On Me”

       “The Last Time I Will Take My Pen In Hand For You”

       “It Wont Be No Use Runin To The Door”

      Introduction to the World War One Centenary Series

      The First World War was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. More than nine million combatants were killed, a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents’ technological and industrial sophistication – and tactical stalemate. It was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, paving the way for major political changes, including revolutions in many of the nations involved. The war drew in all the world’s great economic powers, which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (based on the Triple Entente of the United Kingdom, France and the Russian Empire) and the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary. These alliances were both reorganised and СКАЧАТЬ