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title: "Suddenly We Didn't Want to Die: Memoirs of a World War I Marine"
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# Suddenly We Didn't Want to Die: Memoirs of a World War I Marine

**Brand:** elton mackin
**Price:** 28865CFA
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- **What is this?** Suddenly We Didn't Want to Die: Memoirs of a World War I Marine by elton mackin
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Suddenly We Didn't Want to Die: Memoirs of a World War I Marine

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## Customer Reviews

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    Vietnam was nothing new
  

*by E***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 22, 2001*

Mackin's book is a spare, at times profound and almost poetic evocation of the life of a Marine Corps grunt on the Western Front in World War I. The dominant theme is of how men accommodate themselves to the appalling realization that they are in a hopeless situation in which they will be killed, and there is nothing they can do to prevent it, and that no one other than their comrades will ever fully appreciate this predicament: "The folks at home will never know the truth."Mackin writes of the thrill and terror of battle, the feelings of fear and elation, and the awe at seeing other men die: "It is always a show, no matter how terrifying."To deal with this world of fear and death, men developed a sarcasm for weakness: "They make a bitter joke of things to cover feelings"; "We learned to close our minds to the memory of men who fell. We took the way of living day to day . . . We learned to laugh at everything in time. It carried us." Men lost their youth, and in some ways matured, and in other ways were permanently scarred: "There was no singing now . . . The faces had changed. . . . his scars would be deep, and never, never leave his eyes."

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    One young Marine 's WW1 book  is a realistic look at this horrific  conflict  from his experience.
  

*by J***. on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 25, 2021*

This is a powerful story of our Marines going to France as America enters World War I in 1918. These Marines are green and have not been tested in combat. Starting with their fight at BellauWoods until the final days of the war the fight against the Germans in trench warfare, gas attacks,  artillery bombs, and hand to hand combat. Our young Marine who is a runner carrying messages through deadly battle fields  has in short order given us a first hand look at this horrific conflict. Loved the book. The Authors diary and initial oil skin pages were published years after the war . Great that this book was written as it brings alive for a short time these Marines who gave their all for America.

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    The Best Combat Memior
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 1, 2022*

More than any other memoir, Mackin’s writings about his time on the Western Front in WWI are the most prolific, to me.

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