Title The World War I diary of José de la Luz Sáenz / edited and with an introduction by Emilio Zamora ; translated by Emilio Zamora with Ben Maya

Edition First edition Published College Station, Texas : Texas A & M University Press, ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 513 pages) : illustrations, maps Series C.A. Brannen series ; number thirteen C.A. Brannen series ; no. 13. Contents Prologue -- My personal diary -- Reporting at New Braunfels -- The brigade station -- Camp Travis -- France -- How Carrejo and four others died -- A horrible night in "no man's land" -- Toul, Choloy, and Rampondt -- Moving across the rubble of the battlefield to reach the enemy and occupy the line of fire: Montfaucon and Dead Man's Hill -- Days and nights in a foxhole in Romagne -- How we destroyed Hindenburg's impregnable trenches -- Simón González and others -- Hipólito Jasso receives a shrapnel wound -- Dark night, cold night, horrible night in Villers-devant-Dun -- Armistice day -- Memorable march from Pont-Sassy, France -- Memories of the European War, our last campaign, five days and nights -- Thanksgiving and then to Germany -- In Zeltingen, Alemania, by the Moselle -- Mexican Americans attend school -- The Texans and Oklahomans: an occasion for drawing on a postcard -- Prodding that produces favorable results -- Article of War no. 105 and 2,175 bottles of champagne -- A portrait of Zeltingen -- On the last cattle train and cars 40 and 8 -- The Mongolia, American steamship -- How Boston receives us -- Demobilizing the 90th Division -- Epilogue: the voice of a claim that demands justice -- To the memory of the Mexican American heroes who died in the Great World War defending the democratic principles of the American Union -- List of honor -- Notes Summary ""I am home, safe and sound, and reviewing all these memories as if in a dream. All of this pleases me. I have been faithful to my duty." Thus José de la Luz Sáenz ends his account of his military service in France and Germany in 1918. Published in Spanish in 1933, his annotated book of diary entries and letters recounts not only his own war experiences but also those of his fellow Mexican Americans. A skilled and dedicated teacher in South Texas before and after the war, Sáenz's patriotism, his keen observation of the discrimination he and his friends faced both at home and in the field, and his unwavering dedication to the cause of equality have for years made this book a valuable resource for scholars, though only ten copies are known to exist and it has never before been available in English. Equally clear in these pages are the astute reflections and fierce pride that spurred Sáenz and others to pursue the postwar organization of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). This English edition of one of only two known war diaries of a Mexican American in the Great War is translated with an introduction and annotation by noted Mexican American historian Emilio Zamora."--Provided by publisher Notes Translation of: Los mexico-americanos en la Gran Guerra: y su contingente en pró de la democracia, la humanidad y la justicia, originally published in original Spanish in San Antonio by Artes Gráficas, 1933 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Translated from the Spanish Print version record Subject Sáenz, José de la Luz, 1888-1953. SUBJECT Sáenz, José de la Luz, 1888-1953 fast Subject United States. Army. Division, 90th -- Biography SUBJECT United States. Army. Division, 90th fast Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Mexican American World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, Mexican-American Civil rights workers -- Texas -- Biography Mexican Americans -- Texas -- Biography World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories -- United States HISTORY -- Europe -- Western. Military participation -- Mexican American Civil rights workers Mexican Americans Regimental histories Texas United States Genre/Form Biographies Form Electronic book Author Maya, Ben, -2012, translator. Zamora, Emilio, translator, editor. ISBN 9781623491512 1623491517 9781306407045 1306407044 1623491142 9781623491147 1623491134 9781623491130

Other Titles Mexico-americanos en la Gran Guerra. English

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