A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, John L. Hobson II could have chosen a life of comfort and followed his father's and grandfather's footsteps into the family business. Instead, he left his studies at Bryant and Stratton College in Boston and joined the portentous American war effort in 1916. This collection of letters from Hobson to his family in Haverhill, Massachusetts, collected and edited by Hobson's son, Stephen Gale Hobson, chronicles a young American man's foray into the European battlefields of World War I. Eloquently written and intensely felt, these letters poignantly express...