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| | Western Front Association - U.S. Branch: Len's Bookshelf |
 | | , John Dos Passos, Dover Giant Thrift Editions, Mineola, NY, 2004, 309 = ix pages with an introduction by Heywood Broun, ISBN 0 486-43467 21, $5.00 trade paperback; first published in 1921, a grim fictionalized depiction of life in the WWI era America Army by the author who typifies the Lost Generation. |
 | | A mostly forgotten episode of WWI involving Turko-German efforts to wage jihad against British interests in the Middle East, Persia, Afghanistan and Central Asia, and to foment rebellion in India, all elements of the German imperial Drang nach Osten. |
 | | Subjects covered are eclectic and include campaigns, weapons, diplomacy, food rations, finance, science and technology, cinema, war literature, the peace treaties, and refugees with emphasis on the Western Front. |
| www.wfa-usa.org /new/lens_commemor.htm (3090 words) |
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