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Title: They Called Them Soldier Boys
Subtitle: A Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I
Author: Gregory W. Ball
Narrator: Jim R Sartor
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-16-17
Publisher: University Press Audiobooks
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: History, Military
Publisher's Summary:
They Called Them Soldier Boys offers an in-depth study of soldiers of the Texas National Guard's Seventh Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I, through their recruitment, training, journey to France, combat, and their return home. Gregory W. Ball focuses on the 14 counties in North, Northwest, and West Texas where officers recruited the regiment's soldiers in the summer of 1917, and how those counties compared with the rest of the state in terms of political, social, and economic attitudes.
In September 1917 the "Soldier Boys" trained at Camp Bowie, near Fort Worth, Texas, until the War Department combined the Seventh Texas with the First Oklahoma Infantry to form the 142nd Infantry Regiment of the 36th Division. In early October 1918, the 142nd Infantry, including more than 600 original members of the Seventh Texas, was assigned to the French Fourth Army in the Champagne region and went into combat for the first time on October 6. Ball explores the combat experiences of those Texas soldiers in detail up through the armistice of November 11, 1918.
The book is published by University of North Texas Press.
Critic Reviews:
"An eminently solid work, well-researched and well-written." (On Point, the Journal of Army History)
"Highly readable; it is strongly suggested to anyone interested in wishing to sense the atmosphere of rural Texas in the early 1900s or the United States' involvement in World War I." (Journal of South Texas)
"A valuable blending of social and military history...This book will be of interest as much to historians pondering the social implications of war as to military historians of World War I." (Southwestern Historical Quarterly)
Members Reviews:
36th ID - The formative years
More than just a dry history, this book explores the volunteer Soldiers backgrounds, their training and deployment to 'Over There' during the closing months of WWI. From eager, idealistic young men and officers to victims and veterans of ugly trench warfare, readers will glimpse a close up view of these men doing their unglamorous job.
Bought this book for my Soldier son -currently serving with the 36th and a veteran of five tours to the Sandbox... so far. I'll gift it to him after I've finished reading it.
Texas National Guard at war in France 1918
Learn about the men who served, fought, and died with the Texas National Guard in France in WWI.
A rare study of a battle that in many ways would shape the experiences of the men who would lead Texas in the next forty years.
They Called Them Soldier Boys, by Gregory Ball, the history of the 71st Brigade, 36th Division, in World War I. This is a rare study of a battle that in many ways would shape the experiences of the men who would lead Texas in the next forty years. Dr. Ball has correlated the demographics and anecdotes of the 5000 cowboys and farmers from North Texas who found themselves swept up in World War I, only to be set down on the brutal Hindenburg line near Reims, France, where for four years the Germans and French had killed each other in an area not much larger than present-day San Antonio, Texas.
