"Soldier's Home" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway written in 1925 as a part of his book of short stories, In Our Time (Meyer 152). The story talks about Corporal Harold Krebs, who, like Hemingway, volunteers for instead of being drafted into World War I. He volunteers for the Marines in 1917. A recruiting booklet for the Marines from that time lets us know what Harold Krebs might have read before volunteering. (History and Lore). The cover …
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…Bedford Introduction to Literature. Ed. Michael Meyer. Boston: Bedford Books, 1999. 152<Tab/> St. Mihiel: <http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/ww1/ww1-12.htm> Soissons: <http://www.grunts.net/army/1stid.html> Woolf, Samuel J. Cpl ALPHEUS APPENHEIMER, USMC Teamster, Headquarters Detachment. Scuttlebutt and Small Chow. U.S. Marine Corps Historical Galleries: WWI. 2000. <http://www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com/appen.html>