A Short but very valuable memoir from a future General of the American Army who faced his first baptism of first in the trenches of the First World War. Includes a number of sketches of the men with whom he served and the frontline. "Memoir, 1917-1918. MacNider was a lieutenant in the 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Division. This short memoir provides vignettes of fighting near Soissons and St. Mihiel."- p. 232, Edward Lengel, World War I Memories, 2004, The Scarecrow Press, Lanham Maryland, Toronto, Oxford.