Abstract:
Paul Green was a student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill when the United States entered World War I in 1917. He put his studies aside and enlisted in the army. From the first day of his enlistment, he kept a diary of his experiences in this country and on the battlefields in Belgium. Using selections from Green's diary, Spence interspersed details from a conversation he had with the author in 1974, to create a picture of one soldier's life during World War I.