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Tooled the Good Soldier Poets in the Trench
A vivid wartime vignette follows six officers fixed on a trench romance. They idolize a Paris model turned chorus performer, Phyllis Munday, as a beloved in absent wives and lovers. Her departure to America sparks poems and fantasies among the unit, culminating in a self-aware, bittersweet love lament voiced by the men and the engaged subaltern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kirchner
Bketeh
Jealor
Pirle
England
America
Ypres
Mrs. McReaty
Whytlle Bundsy
Naweho
C.J. McReary
C. 3. McHeary
United States Navy
Phylisa Munday
Paris
Phyllis
Pase
Calala
Elmuty
London
New York
Charles Dilllunhan