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Paths of Glory by Humphrey Cobb
Paths of Glory by Humphrey Cobb













Paths of Glory by Humphrey Cobb

Death Ĭobb died of coronary thrombosis at his home in Port Washington, New York on April 25, 1944. They had two children, William and Alice. From 1935 to 1940 he was employed as a screenwriter where he was credited as a co-writer of San Quentin (1937).Ĭobb married Annie Louise Hubbard. Ĭobb wrote a second less well received novel, None But the Brave, which was serialized in Collier's Weekly in 1938. The book was based on the Souain corporals affair, an actual event in WWI when the French Army shot four men for cowardice as an example to others. The story is about three French soldiers who are court martialed and executed to save senior commanders from shame. He wrote Paths of Glory while working at the Young & Rubicam advertising agency in New York. He worked in the stock trade, merchant marine, publishing, advertising, and the US Office of War Information writing overseas propaganda.

Paths of Glory by Humphrey Cobb

He served for three years during the conflict, including duty on the front lines at the Battle of Amiens in France in 1918.įollowing the war, Cobb worked a variety of jobs. In 1916, after being expelled from high school at age 17, Cobb relocated to Montreal, Canada to enlist in the Canadian Army a year before the United States entered World War I. Cobb's parents sent him to school in England for his primary education and at age 13 he returned to the United States to continue his schooling. He was the son of American parents, Arthur Cobb, an artist, and his wife Alice Littell Cobb, a physician. his younger sister Alice and little brother Arthur at the Casa Guida in Florence, Italy, December 24, 1908 Humphrey (right) with his recently widowed mother, Alice Littell Cobb, M.D.















Paths of Glory by Humphrey Cobb