Sergeant York And His People

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With all the tense interest and swift action of a novel, 'Sergeant York and His People' brings you a true story stranger indeed than fiction - a story of home, work, war, faith in God, and love told about the type of man whom we call an American with a thrill of pride. The scenes range from the stern, sun-kissed mountains of Tennessee where Sergeant York was born to that perilous, shell-ridden battlefield in France where this young Tennessee mountaineer amazed the world with his almost unbelievable feat of individual skill and lion-hearted bravery.

A graphic, intensely interesting, and truthful account of the deeds of this American hero who General John J. Pershing called the greatest civilian soldier of the great war and whose feat Marshal Foch characterized as the World War's most remarkable individual achievement; his home life; is friends; his surroundings; his lineage; his character - in fact, all the intimate details of his life and personality.

"As York fought, there was a prayer on his lips, we are told in 'Sergeant York and His People,' by Sam K. Cowan. He 'prayed to God to spare him and to have mercy on those he was compelled to kill.' In his own happy phrase, York's rifle killed 'a-aplenty,' for he hailed from Pall Mall, a tiny village in the mountains of Tennessee, where every boy learns to shoot. It is the land of the 'Long Hunters.' As Mr. Cowan informs us, a carving on a tree near Pall Mall reads: 'D. Boon CILLED a BAR ON Tree in The YEAR 1700.'....' Sergeant York And His People' is not a war book. It is a Mountain book. It traces 'the molding of a man,' as Mr. Cowan puts it, and one notes with curious interest the very striking part that religion played in the molding." -The Literary Digest

"The real story of the greatest American hero in the recent war, describing his home life, the community in which he lives and the lives of the Tennessee mountaineers among whom he was brought up." -Bookseller and Stationer

"One of the most delightful books that has reached the desk of the editor....It tells in charming style something of the life of the simple mountain folk of Tennessee and how it came to pass that from these primitive people sprang Alvin York, the greatest individual hero of the late world war. If York had never entered the army an account of his life and his people would be interesting when told by Sam K. Cowan, his biographer; interesting because Alvin York is an exceptional character in more ways than one and his people, as Mr. Cowan saw them, are not at all the ignorant people described in many works on the mountaineers of Tennessee and Kentucky. True enough, they have very little 'hard larnin,' but in hard, practical common sense and in quality of mind they compare favorably with their brothers of the lowlands who have had greater educational advantages. But Sergeant York did enter the army and his exploits as a solder made him world famous, because he put the business of fighting the same courageous, straightforward, earnest determination that he learned to put into everything he attempted back i the hills of Tennessee....The facts about the life of this unusual mountain boy are stranger than the strangest fiction, a new Arabian Nights tale that you can't forget if you read it.....Genuine pleasure." -The Southern Lumberman

"The war's most distinguished private." -Eugenical News

"The story of the ancestry and environment of Sergeant York together with the general characteristics of the man to whom Marshal Foch said 'What you did was the greatest thing accomplished by any private soldier of all the armies of Europe.'" -Publishers Weekly

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