Latrobe Bulletin: Decorated soldier from Herminie fought "Herbert's War"
By Maryann Gogniat Eidemiller
Ronald O. Kaiser was 11 years old and his good friend Tony Herbert was 12 when they were talking about the war because back in 1942, he wrote, that was "the only thing anyone anybody talked about" in Herminie. And so begins nearly 500 pages of a true story that Kaiser wrote about Lt. Col. Anthony B. Herbert, beginning with their childhood escapades in the coal mining village and tracing Herbert's military career that in one war earned him medals and high praise, and in the next, his reputation was on the line...
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- Review by Chris J. Magoc, Professor of History, Mercyhurst University August 5, 2019
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