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About Face
Eleanor Elliott Brownell
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113 pages | ISBN: 0-9679784-0-8 |
Summary
This is a history of a Michigan farm lad who joined the United States army to fight in France in 1918. His letters home and family memory of what he did and endured are folded into the larger context of the Great War. The author tells of her father's heroism under fire.
About the Author
Eleanor Elliott Brownell grew up on a farm near Mason, Michigan. She received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Michigan in 1959. She worked as a reporter for ten years, nine of which were at The Flint Journal in Flint, Michigan. She and her husband, a Flint attorney, have three children.
Reviews
"Brava! Eleanor Brownell's study of the Great War and her father's role in it is a first rate tribute to a sturdy American, as well as being a concise summary for the American performance in the last year of the conflict. I find the work fascinating, well written, and succinct. The author incorporated her father's own contemporary records and gives an immediacy and liveliness to an epic story. This account renders a signal service to both Sgt. Vernon Elliott and to history."
- Robert G. Schafer, Ph.D., Professor of History, Emeritus, University of Michigan - Flint, Michigan
"Eleanor Elliott Brownell takes us along as she walks the battlefields of Europe where her father fought so gallantly in World War I. You quickly come to appreciate her reportorial ability ... The book not only is a tribute to her father, but also provides an accurate snapshot of a Michigan farm lad's evolution to a highly decorated soldier."
- Raymond L. Gover, President, The Patriot News, Harrisburg Pennsylvania, and former Editor, The Flint Journal, Flint, Michigan
"A very personal and extraordinary accurate account of a boy who went from a mid-Michigan farm to a war in France in 1918. THe book is written with the clarity and no-nonsense style of the excellent reporter that is Eleanor Brownell ... About Face is a remarkably authoritative and vivid report of an army in training and at war. A gripping story even for those who never knew Battalion Sergeant Major Vernon Elliott."
- Colonel Richard E. Campbell, U.S.M.C. (Ret.) and Editor, The Argus Press, Owosso, Michigan
