From Belleau Wood to Bougainville

The Oral History of Major General Robert Blake Usmc and the Travel Journal of Rosselet Wallace Blake

Nonfiction, Travel, History, Military, Biography & Memoir
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Author: Robert Wallace Blake ISBN: 9781418411558
Publisher: AuthorHouse Publication: October 28, 2004
Imprint: AuthorHouse Language: English
Author: Robert Wallace Blake
ISBN: 9781418411558
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Publication: October 28, 2004
Imprint: AuthorHouse
Language: English

The book was written as a companion volume for the authors most recent work, Bayonets and Bougainvilleas.In this volume the author presents the verbatim text of two major source documents for that work; his fathers ORAL HISTORY and his mothers TRAVEL JOURNAL, with his own added commentary.The HISTORY is the text of General Blakes official interview with Marine Corps historian Benis Frank covering the Generals Marine Corps career 1917-1949.The JOURNAL is the transcript of journal entries and letters written by the authors mother during travels abroad and in the USA from 1931 to 1941.The authors commentary weaves his mothers words into a continuous narrative covering the Blakes twenty-three year married life.

Taken as a whole the book offers and unusual picture of military life in the separate words of the husband and the wife.

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The book was written as a companion volume for the authors most recent work, Bayonets and Bougainvilleas.In this volume the author presents the verbatim text of two major source documents for that work; his fathers ORAL HISTORY and his mothers TRAVEL JOURNAL, with his own added commentary.The HISTORY is the text of General Blakes official interview with Marine Corps historian Benis Frank covering the Generals Marine Corps career 1917-1949.The JOURNAL is the transcript of journal entries and letters written by the authors mother during travels abroad and in the USA from 1931 to 1941.The authors commentary weaves his mothers words into a continuous narrative covering the Blakes twenty-three year married life.

Taken as a whole the book offers and unusual picture of military life in the separate words of the husband and the wife.

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