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Bamboo Tales

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By Ira L. Reeves
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A sequence of short sketches and translated diary entries recounts campaigns, skirmishes, camp life, and encounters during overseas military operations. The pieces range from detailed action reports and translations of enemy accounts to anecdotal vignettes about mascots, animals, and daily routines, balancing blunt descriptions of casualties and hardship with moments of humor and irony. Recurring concerns include logistics, small-unit movements, wounds and their effects, and the ways individuals cope with fear, duty, and camaraderie. The collection as a whole offers varied first-person impressions that shift between grim reportage and lighter, humanizing episodes.

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A collection of short stories written—or collected—by an American soldier in the first years Philippine-American War.

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Scans of this book are available on The Internet Archive. and Google Books (snippet view for those outside the U.S.) The text was derived from page images from Google, while the illustrations where taken from the copy available in the Internet Archive.

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Corrections

The following corrections have been applied to the text:

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