Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit by Thorne Smith, Thorne Smith
Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit

Thorne Smith, Thorne Smith

Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit

Thorne Smith, Thorne Smith

178 pages first pub 1918 (editions)

funny reflective slow-paced
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Biltmore Oswald may be seen as the original model for such later comic military characters as Popeye, Sad Sack, Beetle Bailey and Crock. Akin to his successors, Oswald was so hopelessly and shamelessly unqualified as a naval recruit, that the Navy...

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