An intimate account of a soldier’s experience in World War I, A VERY MUDDY PLACE takes us on a journey from a young man’s rural American hometown onto one of the great battlefields of France. We follow Private B. F. Potts with the 137th US Infantry Regiment through the first days of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. We discover a personal story—touching, emotional, unforgettable.
In 1918, twenty-three-year-old Bennie Potts was drafted into the US Army to fight in the World War. He served with the American Expeditionary Force in France. At home after the war, he married and raised a family, and the war for his children and grandchildren became the anecdotes he told them.
A century later, a great grandson brings together his ancestor’s war stories and the historical record to follow Private Benjamin Franklin Potts from Tennessee to the Great War in France and back home again.
A Very Muddy Place
WAR STORIES
The First Story of
Littlelot
Full-Color Illustrated Edition
An Arthurian legend with knights and damsels and other action figures
In his game of make-believe, a boy must make a choice—break his oath to the king or break the heart of the woman who gave him the most meaningful gift.
The frontispiece and six chapter illustrations by celebrated artists Arthur Rackham, N. C. Wyeth, Thomas Moran, and Herbert James Draper bring Littlelot’s Arthurian adventure to life in this beautiful paperback book.
The First Story of
Littlelot
An Arthurian legend with knights and damsels and other action figures
In his game of make-believe, a boy must make a choice—break his oath to the king or break the heart of the woman who gave him the most meaningful gift.
Littlelot and the Real Monster
Littlelot must overcome his fear to confront the monster that threatens to eat him and his family too!
The Way to Vict’ry
Three haiku about success, happiness, and daring to do the most impossible things
The most extraordinary book of three haiku ever published!
FULLY ILLUSTRATED
by Cristina Basile
