offers a completely different perspective than history books or memoirs like James A Murrin’s With the 112th in France or Hervey Allen’s Toward the Flame. Pennsylvania’s Harold W. Pierce

As one who has done a fair amount of research on World War One and whose great uncle died in that war, I was especially eager to read Bill Welch’s book, Duty, Terror and Survival: The World War One Diary and Art of Doughboy Cp. Harold W. Pierce. Bill and I were part of the Erie…