TY - BOOK AU - Boyd,Thomas TI - Through the Wheat AV - PS PY - 2019/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction KW - War stories KW - United States. Marine Corps -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_Wheat; Release date is 2019-01-31; Produced by Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.); Original publication data not identified N2 - "Through the Wheat" by Thomas Boyd is a novel published in 1923. It follows William Hicks, a young Marine automatic rifleman, through his harrowing experiences in World War I. After a year of non-combat duty in France, Hicks finally faces the brutal reality of trench warfare and the Battle of Belleau Wood. As his comrades fall one by one to gunfire and gas, Hicks descends into delirium and emotional numbness, pushed beyond human endurance. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58796 ER -