“Mr Ullman deserves full credit for a lot of ‘good lines.’ The wit of Goldie’s letters is catchy and largely original—not current vaudeville wheezes warmed over. We wish there was more of it and less of the ‘good-old-ham-and-eggs,’ ‘man-from-home’ brand of philosophy.”
+ − N Y Times 25:27 Je 27 ’20 500w
UNCENSORED letters of a canteen girl. *$2 (3c) Holt 940.48
20–14006
These letters were “scratched down on odds and ends of writing paper, in a rare spare moment at the canteen; at night, at my billet, by candle-light, in the mornings, perched in front of Madame’s fire-place.... Why were they never sent? Simply because all letters mailed from France in those days, must of course pass under the eyes of the censor.” (Foreword) They contain everything that happened generously interspersed with the conversations of the doughboys. Contents: Company A; The doughboys; The front; The artillery; The engineers; The ordnance; The French; Pioneers, M. P.’s and others.
“Rather more tempting to the jaded war appetite than most personal narratives because of the fresh frankness which anonymity permits. Will be liked better later on.”
+ Booklist 17:150 Ja ’21 + Boston Transcript p4 O 23 ’20 220w
“So piquant and fine-humored are the observations and revelations that one regrets that the book is anonymous. The publishers’ claim, that this ‘gives the human side of soldiering as no book yet published has done,’ does not seem extravagant.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 Ag 27 ’20 270w