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An American Soldier Becomes a British Tommy in World War I
A Jersey City man leaves for England to enlist after the Lusitania sinking. The narrative covers training, front-line duties, discipline, and frontline humor as Empey details life in the trenches, punishments, and machine gun tactics including a ruse to silence a German gun.
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Chafter I
Lusitania
Arthur Guy Hmpey
Jersey City
Oes
England
Empey
Secon
France
Fokker
Tommy
Eimpey
Wo Man’s Land
No Man’s Land
Sik—shimers
Fimpey
G—— Wood
Fritz
Ming
Stitz
Eover
Frita
Diest
Writz