Hell Heaven or Hoboken by Christmas

<p>This book chronicles the experiences of a young farm boy from Schuyler County Illinois as he participated in the three main American campaigns of World War I or as it was known then the Great War. The main body of the book contains the daily entries into his diary?memoirs that he wrote later during the 1970s and my own commentaries. The diary entries are apparent because they are generally dated and presented in a distinctive typeface. Diary entries for February March and the first two weeks of April are written in the past tense because they were not written until the second week of April 1918. The end of the diary contains a section where amusing incidents and remarks were recorded. Most of those have been presented in the text in places that seemed to fit the situation the best (for some it was obvious and for some it was just speculation). There is also a section from the diary which is presented near the end of the book that was undated but it seems to have been written during December 1918.</p>