Book Title: The 88th Division in the World War of 1914-1918
Location Published: NY: Wynkoop Halleneck Crawford Co.: 1919
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
Type: Hardcover
Categories: History
Seller ID: 121358
Keywords: 88th division, aef, u.s. army, unit history, wwi
 
Official History of First World War 88th [U.S. Army] Division, authorized by the Commanding General, M.G. William Weigel. Commercially published. Authors are the unit adjutants. Four-part book.
 
First book section is organization and training at Camp Dodge and movement to France. Multiple B&W phots of Camp Dodge, Iowa. Men were drafted from Minnesota, Illionois, Dakotas and Iowa. (p 15-38).
 
Second part arrival in France, training, and life in the trenches.
 
Third Part is period after the armistice.
 
Fourth part [pages 111-126] is complete list of every officer and man who served with the 88th Division in the Allied Expeditionary Force (AEF). Description:
 
Blue cloth on hard bound boards. Gold illustration front board. Bumped corners. Sunned spine. Shelf wear to bottom and top edge of board. Heaviest foxing on top edge, moderate foxing on fore-edge. Minor foxing on bottom edge. Dog eared pages. Closed tear page 34. Total: 236 pages, plus full-page B&W advertisement for "WYNFOOK HALLENBECK 2 CRAWFORD Co. PRINTERS and BINDERS, 80 Lafayette Street, New York "We printed this Official History of the 88th Division."
 
Two maps (one B&W Map is attached to book, between pages 32 & 33.) Other map (red & black ink) is detached [may not have been originally published with the book but is included with the purchase]. [Brass cannon & hands not included.]
 
Used Book.  Approx. Dimensions: 10.75" x 7.75" x 1"