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Total Pages : 572 pages
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Download or read book Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War written by and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Joseph Pershing
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book My Experiences in the World War written by John Joseph Pershing and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two volumes focus on a American Expeditionary Forces soldier's experiences in France during World War I.
Author : John Pershing
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ISBN 13 : 9781519051028
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (51 download)
Download or read book General Pershing's Official Story of the American Expeditionary Forces in France in WWI written by John Pershing and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing is the only person ever promoted in his own lifetime to General of the Armies of the United States, the highest authorized rank in the Army. He led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I and later became controversial for his use of frontal assaults that caused massive casualties.In this rare report, Pershing gives his official story to the American Secretary of War. Included are force numbers and evaluations of his army.
Author : John Joseph Pershing
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Total Pages : 46 pages
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Download or read book General Pershing's Story of the American Army in France written by John Joseph Pershing and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : General John Pershing
Publisher : BIG BYTE BOOKS
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Total Pages : 28 pages
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Download or read book General Pershing’s Official Story Of The American Expeditionary Forces in France in WWI written by General John Pershing and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing is the only person ever promoted in his own lifetime to General of the Armies of the United States, the highest authorized rank in the Army. He led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I and later became controversial for his use of frontal assaults that caused massive casualties. In this rare report, Pershing gives his official story to the American Secretary of War. Included are force numbers and evaluations of his army. For less than you'd spend on gas going to the library, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
Author : John Eisenhower
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743216377
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Yanks written by John Eisenhower and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-09-14 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fought far from home, World War I was nonetheless a stirring American adventure. The achievements of the United States during that war, often underrated by military historians, were in fact remarkable, and they turned the tide of the conflict. So says John S. D. Eisenhower, one of today's most acclaimed military historians, in his sweeping history of the Great War and the men who won it: the Yanks of the American Expeditionary Force. Their men dying in droves on the stalemated Western Front, British and French generals complained that America was giving too little, too late. John Eisenhower shows why they were wrong. The European Allies wished to plug the much-needed U.S. troops into their armies in order to fill the gaps in the line. But General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, the indomitable commander of the AEF, determined that its troops would fight together, as a whole, in a truly American army. Only this force, he argued -- not bolstered French or British units -- could convince Germany that it was hopeless to fight on. Pershing's often-criticized decision led to the beginning of the end of World War I -- and the beginning of the U.S. Army as it is known today. The United States started the war with 200,000 troops, including the National Guard as well as regulars. They were men principally trained to fight Indians and Mexicans. Just nineteen months later the Army had mobilized, trained, and equipped four million men and shipped two million of them to France. It was the greatest mobilization of military forces the New World had yet seen. For the men it was a baptism of fire. Throughout Yanks Eisenhower focuses on the small but expert cadre of officers who directed our effort: not only Pershing, but also the men who would win their lasting fame in a later war -- MacArthur, Patton, and Marshall. But the author has mined diaries, memoirs, and after-action reports to resurrect as well the doughboys in the trenches, the unknown soldiers who made every advance possible and suffered most for every defeat. He brings vividly to life those men who achieved prominence as the AEF and its allies drove the Germans back into their homeland -- the irreverent diarist Maury Maverick, Charles W. Whittlesey and his famous "lost battalion," the colorful Colonel Ulysses Grant McAlexander, and Sergeant Alvin C. York, who became an instant celebrity by singlehandedly taking 132 Germans as prisoners. From outposts in dusty, inglorious American backwaters to the final bloody drive across Europe, Yanks illuminates America's Great War as though for the first time. In the AEF, General John J. Pershing created the Army that would make ours the American age; in Yanks that Army has at last found a storyteller worthy of its deeds.
Author : Edward M. Coffman
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813146445
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The War To End All Wars written by Edward M. Coffman and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of the US military’s involvement in World War I, including soldiers’ experiences, the creation of the air force, and more. The War to End All Wars is considered by many to be the best single account of America’s participation in World War I. Covering famous battles, the birth of the air force, naval engagements, the War Department, and experiences of the troops, this indispensable volume is again available in paperback for students and general readers. Praise for The War to End All Wars “Will surely stand as the first source for anyone interested in the conflict.” —Stephen Ambrose “Coffman’s skilled use of archived materials, diaries and memoirs brings life and immediacy to his story.” —Virginia Quarterly Review “[Coffman] can explain complex matters in a few sharp paragraphs, illuminate technical discussions with personal vignettes, and use statistics to clarify rather than confuse. . . . Should become standard reading in twentieth century American history courses.” —Indiana Magazine of History
Author : Mitchell A. Yockelson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806155604
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Borrowed Soldiers written by Mitchell A. Yockelson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps successfully pierced the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days Campaign of World War I, an offensive that hastened the war’s end. Yet despite the importance of this effort, the training and operation of II Corps has received scant attention from historians. Mitchell A. Yockelson delivers a comprehensive study of the first time American and British soldiers fought together as a coalition force—more than twenty years before D-Day. He follows the two divisions that constituted II Corps, the 27th and 30th, from the training camps of South Carolina to the bloody battlefields of Europe. Despite cultural differences, General Pershing’s misgivings, and the contrast between American eagerness and British exhaustion, the untested Yanks benefited from the experience of battle-toughened Tommies. Their combined forces contributed much to the Allied victory. Yockelson plumbs new archival sources, including letters and diaries of American, Australian, and British soldiers to examine how two forces of differing organization and attitude merged command relationships and operations. Emphasizing tactical cooperation and training, he details II Corps’ performance in Flanders during the Ypres-Lys offensive, the assault on the Hindenburg Line, and the decisive battle of the Selle. Featuring thirty-nine evocative photographs and nine maps, this account shows how the British and American military relationship evolved both strategically and politically. A case study of coalition warfare, Borrowed Soldiers adds significantly to our understanding of the Great War.
Author : Robert H. Ferrell
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826264794
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Five Days in October written by Robert H. Ferrell and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During American participation in World War I, many events caught the public's attention, but none so much as the plight of the Lost Battalion. Comprising some five hundred men of the Seventy-seventh Division, the so-called battalion was entrapped on the side of a ravine in the Argonne Forest by German forces from October 2 to 7, 1918. The men's courage under siege in the midst of rifle, machine-gun, mortar, and artillery fire (coming both day and night), with nothing to eat after the morning of the first day save grass and roots, and with water dangerous to obtain, has gone down in American history as comparable in heroism to the defense of the Alamo and the stand at the Little Big Horn of the troops of General George A. Custer. Now, in Five Days in October, historian Robert H. Ferrell presents new material-previously unavailable-about what really happened during those days in the forest. Despite the description of them as a lost battalion, the men were neither lost nor a battalion. The name was coined by a New York newspaper editor who, upon learning that a sizable body of troops had been surrounded, thought up the notion of a Lost Battalion-it possessed a ring sure to catch the attention of readers. The trapped men actually belonged to companies from two battalions of the Seventy-seventh, and their exact placement was well known, reported by runners at the outset of the action and by six carrier pigeons released by their commander, Major Charles W. Whittlesey, during the five days his men were there. The causes of the entrapment were several, including command failures and tactical errors. The men had been sent ahead of the main division line without attention to flanks, and because of that failure, they were surrounded. Thus began a siege that took the lives of many men, leading to the collapse of the colonel of the 308th Infantry Regiment and, many believe, to the suicide of Major Whittlesey three years later. This book grew out of Ferrell's discovery of new material in the U.S. Army Military History Institute at the Army War College from the papers of General Hugh A. Drum and in the National Archives in College Park, Maryland. The Drum papers contain the court-martial record of the lieutenant of a machine-gun unit attached to the battalions, who advised Major Whittlesey to surrender, while the Seventy-seventh Division files contain full accounts of the taut relations between the Lost Battalion's brigade commander and the Seventy-seventh's division commander. By including this material, Ferrell gives a new accounting of this intriguing affair. Five Days in October will be welcomed by all those interested in a fuller understanding of the story of the Lost Battalion.
Author : Andrew Carroll
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698192664
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)
Download or read book My Fellow Soldiers written by Andrew Carroll and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of War Letters and Behind the Lines, Andrew Carroll’s My Fellow Soldiers draws on a rich trove of both little-known and newly uncovered letters and diaries to create a marvelously vivid and moving account of the American experience in World War I, with General John Pershing featured prominently in the foreground. Andrew Carroll’s intimate portrait of General Pershing, who led all of the American troops in Europe during World War I, is a revelation. Given a military force that on the eve of its entry into the war was downright primitive compared to the European combatants, the general surmounted enormous obstacles to build an army and ultimately command millions of U.S. soldiers. But Pershing himself—often perceived as a harsh, humorless, and wooden leader—concealed inner agony from those around him: almost two years before the United States entered the war, Pershing suffered a personal tragedy so catastrophic that he almost went insane with grief and remained haunted by the loss for the rest of his life, as private and previously unpublished letters he wrote to family members now reveal. Before leaving for Europe, Pershing also had a passionate romance with George Patton’s sister, Anne. But once he was in France, Pershing fell madly in love with a young painter named Micheline Resco, whom he later married in secret. Woven throughout Pershing’s story are the experiences of a remarkable group of American men and women, both the famous and unheralded, including Harry Truman, Douglas Macarthur, William “Wild Bill” Donovan, Teddy Roosevelt, and his youngest son Quentin. The chorus of these voices, which begins with the first Americans who enlisted in the French Foreign Legion 1914 as well as those who flew with the Lafayette Escadrille, make the high stakes of this epic American saga piercingly real and demonstrates the war’s profound impact on the individuals who served—during and in the years after the conflict—with extraordinary humanity and emotional force.
Author : Maurer Maurer
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The US Air Service in World War 1 written by Maurer Maurer and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Pershing
Publisher : St, John's Press
ISBN 13 : 9781944961527
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (615 download)
Download or read book General Pershing's Offcial Story written by John Pershing and published by St, John's Press. This book was released on 2016-09-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During and after the Great War, the United States as well as much of Europe honored and deified Pershing. This work from the period is no different. The below introduction comes from the book. This book contains the official report of General Pershing to Secretary of War Baker on America's participation in the World War. It is, perhaps, the most precious human document since the Declaration of Independence became the foundation of our glorious United States. The part our country played in restoring peace to the world found its inspiration in the deeds of 1776. Our imperishable obligation to France was one of the prime reasons why we made the supreme sacrifice. It found its echo in General Pershing's early visit to the tomb of Lafayette. The publishers were inspired to reprint this report for sale at a popular price so that a copy might be in every home in the land. The story of the American Army in France, as written by General John J.Pershing, will be handed down to the generations to come.
Author : Richard S. Faulkner
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700623736
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Pershing's Crusaders written by Richard S. Faulkner and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great War caught a generation of American soldiers at a turning point in the nation's history. At the moment of the Republic's emergence as a key player on the world stage, these were the first Americans to endure mass machine warfare, and the first to come into close contact with foreign peoples and cultures in large numbers. What was it like, Richard S. Faulkner asks, to be one of these foot soldiers at the dawn of the American century? How did the doughboy experience the rigors of training and military life, interact with different cultures, and endure the shock and chaos of combat? The answer can be found in Pershing's Crusaders, the most comprehensive, and intimate, account ever given of the day-to-day lives and attitudes of the nearly 4.2 million American soldiers mobilized for service in World War I. Pershing’s Crusaders offers a clear, close-up picture of the doughboys in all of their vibrant diversity, shared purpose, and unmistakably American character. It encompasses an array of subjects from the food they ate, the clothes they wore, their view of the Allied and German soldiers and civilians they encountered, their sexual and spiritual lives, their reasons for serving, and how they lived and fought, to what they thought about their service along every step of the way. Faulkner's vast yet finely detailed portrait draws upon a wealth of sources—thousands of soldiers' letters and diaries, surveys and memoirs, and a host of period documents and reports generated by various staff agencies of the American Expeditionary Forces. Animated by the voices of soldiers and civilians in the midst of unprecedented events, these primary sources afford an immediacy rarely found in historical records. Pershing's Crusaders is, finally, a work that uniquely and vividly captures the reality of the American soldier in WWI for all time.
Author : John J. Pershing
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813141990
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book My Life Before the World War, 1860--1917 written by John J. Pershing and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The president of the United States traditionally serves as a symbol of power, virtue, ability, dominance, popularity, and patriarchy. In recent years, however, the high-profile candidacies of Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and Michelle Bachmann have provoked new interest in gendered popular culture and how it influences Americans' perceptions of the country's highest political office. In this timely volume, editors Justin S. Vaughn and Lilly J. Goren lead a team of scholars in examining how the president and the first lady exist as a function of public expectations and cultural gender roles. The authors investigate how the candidates' messages are conveyed, altered, and interpreted in "hard" and "soft" media forums, from the nightly news to daytime talk shows, and from tabloids to the blogosphere. They also address the portrayal of the presidency in film and television productions such as Kisses for My President (1964), Air Force One (1997), and Commander in Chief (2005). With its strong, multidisciplinary approach, Women and the White House commences a wider discussion about the possibility of a female president in the United States, the ways in which popular perceptions of gender will impact her leadership, and the cultural challenges she will face.
Author : American Battle Monuments Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book American Armies and Battlefields in Europe written by American Battle Monuments Commission and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David C. Homsher
Publisher : BATTLEGROUND PRODUCTIONS
ISBN 13 : 0970244304
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (72 download)
Download or read book American Battlefields of World War 1, Château-Thierry--then and Now: Enter the Yanks as told in the actual words of the soldiers written by David C. Homsher and published by BATTLEGROUND PRODUCTIONS. This book was released on 2006 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American Battlefields of World War I:Chateau-Thierry--Then and Now is a 304-page book filled with photos from the actual battlefields, photos of the soldiers, photos taken after the liberation of the area. These are juxtaposed with photos as the sites look now. The book text is comprised of the actual words of the soldiers who were there telling their side of the battle."--Publisher description.
Author : John J. Pershing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781462268672
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (686 download)
Download or read book General Pershing's Official Story of the American Expeditionary Forces in France written by John J. Pershing and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardcover reprint of the original 1919 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9". No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Pershing, John J. (John Joseph). General Pershing's Official Story Of The American Expeditionary Forces In France. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Pershing, John J. (John Joseph). General Pershing's Official Story Of The American Expeditionary Forces In France, . New York: Sun Sales Corp., 1919. Subject: World War, 191918
