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Herbert W. McBride
Best known for vivid firsthand books about World War I, this American marksman wrote with the plainspoken detail of someone who had truly been there. His work remains especially well known to readers interested in sniping, rifles, and the day-to-day reality of trench fighting.
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The Emma Gees
by Herbert W. McBride
About the author
Born in Indiana in 1873, Herbert W. McBride was an American soldier and writer who is remembered mainly for his firsthand accounts of service in the First World War. He served with the 21st Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, where he was noted as a sniper and as commander of a machine-gun unit.
McBride wrote two war books drawn from that experience: The Emma Gees and A Rifleman Went to War. Rather than sounding distant or formal, his writing is practical, direct, and full of observation, which helps explain why it has stayed in print for generations of military history readers.
He died in 1933. Even now, his books are often sought out by readers interested in battlefield memoir, marksmanship, and the lived experience of soldiers in World War I.