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Steele's Battalion: The Great War Diaries
Paperback
General FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher Price: $24.95
Publisher: Jdb Communications, LLC
Published: Apr 6 2025
Pages: 398
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before history sanitized World War I, a soldier wrote it down in his diaries.
Inside an old steamer trunk, a scholar uncovered forgotten diaries, revealing the voice of Ned Steele, a young American forever reshaped by the first global war of the modern age.
Beginning in Detroit and ending in the ravaged fields of Europe, Steele's diaries trace his transformation from a civilian volunteer in 1914 to commissioned officer commanding machine-gun units on the Western Front. What unfolds is not a heroic myth, but an unfiltered chronicle of endurance: choking mud and gas, relentless artillery, shattered towns, exhaustion beyond measure, and the moral weight of leadership under fire.
Between battles, Steele records fleeting moments of humanity: friendship, longing, fear, and love set against the grinding machinery of industrial warfare. His words capture the intimate reality of World War I as people lived it day by day: confusing, brutal, obscene, and devastatingly personal.
Written in a diary-driven narrative style and grounded in rigorous historical research, Steele's Battalion: The Great War Diaries offers readers a rare perspective on trench warfare and early machine-gun combat seen through the eyes of a man trying to remain human in a world designed to kill him.
This is not a tale of glory or triumph; it is a testament to survival, command, and the cost of modern war.
Perfect for readers who value realistic military fiction, literary war novels, and historically grounded stories that confront the Great War without illusion.
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