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Cargando... Army Boys on German Soil; or, Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs (1920)por Homer Randall
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I tell you, Bart, I don't like the looks of things, remarked Frank Sheldon to his chum, Bart Raymond, as the two stood on a corner in the German city of Coblenz on the Rhine. "What's on your mind?" inquired Bart, as he drew the collar of his raincoat more snugly around his neck and turned his back to the sleet-laden wind that was fairly blowing a gale. "I don't see anything to get stirred up about except this abominable weather. It's all I can do to keep my feet." "It is a pretty tough night to be out on patrol duty," agreed Frank. "But it wasn't that I was thinking about. It's the way these Huns have been acting lately." "Are you thinking of that sergeant of ours that was found stabbed to death the other night?" asked Bart, with quickened interest. "Not so much that," replied Frank, "although that's one of the things that shows the way the wind is blowing. But it's the surly way the whole population is acting. Haven't you noticed it?" No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The book is interesting on several levels. I was amused and touched by the boyish slang the writer used in the dialogue. It sounds hopelessly ancient now, but has a certain innocence and naivite about it. I was also amused by how unPC it was! The "dirty Hun" are held in scorn on every page. At one point a character says that the world is divided into two groups, "human beings and Germans." Belgian atrocities are mentioned frequently. And finally, I was quite interested in how psychic the story seemed to be in light of future developments. Much is made of the German despair in defeat, and how the anger and hatred of the allies seems ready to break out again.
This book was intended as formula entertainment for boys in the 20's. I found it to be much more than that. ( )