The University of Oklahoma Press recently brought to fruition a work of scholarship several years in the making, at least seven, I think, perhaps more. On the Western Front with the Rainbow Division: A World War I Diary contains the written-down thoughts of Vernon Kniptash, a member of the Indiana National Guard whose grandparents immigrated to the United States, and who decided to fight against Germany in the Great War. The editor of this volume who saw to its publication is the chair of the history department at Ball State University, Dr. E. Bruce Geelhoed.
