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Book Synopsis The Story of General Pershing by : Everett T. Tomlinson
Download or read book The Story of General Pershing written by Everett T. Tomlinson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Story of General Pershing by Everett T. Tomlinson
Book Synopsis Pershing: A Biography by : Jim Lacey
Download or read book Pershing: A Biography written by Jim Lacey and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2008-06-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting story of General "Black Jack" Pershing, the first great modern commander to lead a major campaign in Europe. In this persuasive biography, Jim Lacey sheds light on General Pershing's legacy as the nation's first modern combat commander, setting the standard for today's four-star officers. When the U.S. entered into WWI in 1917, they did so with inadequate forces. In just over a year, Pershing built and hurled a one million man army against forty battle-hardened German divisions, defending the hellish Meuse-Argonne and turning the tide of the war. With focus and clarity, Lacey traces the development of Pershing from Indian fighter, to guerrilla warrior against the Philippines insurgency to victorious commander in WWI.
Book Synopsis My Fellow Soldiers by : Andrew Carroll
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.
Book Synopsis General Pershing's Own Story by : John Pershing
Download or read book General Pershing's Own Story written by John Pershing and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Story of General Pershing by : Everett Titsworth Tomlinson
Download or read book The Story of General Pershing written by Everett Titsworth Tomlinson and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the career of the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in France.
Book Synopsis 14:The United States Army Band, Pershing's Own by : United States. Army Department
Download or read book 14:The United States Army Band, Pershing's Own written by United States. Army Department and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis My Experiences in the World War by : John Joseph Pershing
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.
Book Synopsis The General and the Jaguar by : Eileen Welsome
Download or read book The General and the Jaguar written by Eileen Welsome and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize winner Welsome's gripping, panoramic story reveals a vicious surprise attack on the United States and America's hunt for the perpetrator, Pancho Villa.
Book Synopsis General Fox Conner by : Steven Rabalais
Download or read book General Fox Conner written by Steven Rabalais and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Army Historical Society Distinguished Writing Award. “Anyone interested in American military history will find it a treasure” (Karl Roider, Alumni Professor Emeritus, Louisiana State University). During World War I, Gen. Conner served as chief of operations for the American Expeditionary Force in Europe. Gen. Pershing told Conner: “I could have spared any other man in the A.E.F. better than you.” In the early 1920s, Conner transformed his protégé Dwight D. Eisenhower from a struggling young officer on the verge of a court martial into one of the American army’s rising stars. Eisenhower acknowledged Fox Conner as “the one more or less invisible figure to whom I owe an incalculable debt.” This book presents the first complete biography of this significant, but now forgotten, figure in American military history. In addition to providing a unique insider’s view into the operations of the American high command during World War I, General Fox Conner also tells the story of an interesting life. Conner felt a calling to military service, although his father had been blinded during the Civil War. From humble beginnings in rural Mississippi, Conner became one of the army’s intellectuals. During the 1920s, when most of the nation slumbered in isolationism, Conner predicted a second world war. As the nation began to awaken to new international dangers in the 1930s, Pres. Roosevelt offered Fox Conner the position of army chief of staff, which he declined. Poor health prevented his participation in World War II, while others whom he influenced, including Eisenhower, Patton, and Marshall, went on to fame. “A biography that is both dramatic and compelling.” —Mark Perry, author of The Pentagon’s Wars
Book Synopsis General Pershing's Own Story of the Victorious American Army by : John Joseph Pershing
Download or read book General Pershing's Own Story of the Victorious American Army written by John Joseph Pershing and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Hello Girls by : Elizabeth Cobbs
Download or read book The Hello Girls written by Elizabeth Cobbs and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France at General Pershing’s explicit request. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. While suffragettes picketed the White House and President Wilson struggled to persuade a segregationist Congress to give women of all races the vote, these courageous young women swore the army oath and settled into their new roles. Elizabeth Cobbs reveals the challenges they faced in a war zone where male soldiers wooed, mocked, and ultimately celebrated them. The army discharged the last Hello Girls in 1920, the year Congress ratified the Nineteenth Amendment. When they sailed home, they were unexpectedly dismissed without veterans’ benefits and began a sixty-year battle that a handful of survivors carried to triumph in 1979. “What an eye-opener! Cobbs unearths the original letters and diaries of these forgotten heroines and weaves them into a fascinating narrative with energy and zest.” —Cokie Roberts, author of Capital Dames “This engaging history crackles with admiration for the women who served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during the First World War, becoming the country’s first female soldiers.” —New Yorker “Utterly delightful... Cobbs very adroitly weaves the story of the Signal Corps into that larger story of American women fighting for the right to vote, but it’s the warm, fascinating job she does bringing her cast...to life that gives this book its memorable charisma... This terrific book pays them a long-warranted tribute.” —Christian Science Monitor “Cobbs is particularly good at spotlighting how closely the service of military women like the Hello Girls was tied to the success of the suffrage movement.” —NPR
Download or read book The Moro War written by James R. Arnold and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the global war on terror enters its second decade, the United States military is engaged with militant Islamic insurgents on multiple fronts. But the post-9/11 war against terrorists is not the first time the United States has battled such ferocious foes. The forgotten Moro War, lasting from 1902 to 1913 in the islands of the southern Philippines, was the first confrontation between American soldiers and their allies and a determined Muslim insurgency. The Moro War prefigured American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan more than superficially: It was a bitter, drawn-out conflict in which American policy and aims were fiercely contested between advocates of punitive military measures and proponents of conciliation. As in today's Middle East, American soldiers battled guerrillas in a foreign environment where the enemy knew the terrain and enjoyed local support. The deadliest challenge was distinguishing civilians from suicidal attackers. Moroland became a crucible of leadership for the U.S. Army, bringing the force that had fought the Civil War and the Plains Indian Wars into the twentieth century. The officer corps of the Moro campaign matured into the American generals of World War I. Chief among them was the future general John Pershing-who learned lessons in the island jungles that would guide his leadership in France. Rich with relevance to today's news from the Middle East, and a gripping piece of storytelling, The Moro War is a must-read to understand a formative conflict too long overlooked and to anticipate the future of U.S. involvement overseas.
Download or read book With Their Bare Hands written by Gene Fax and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking new narrative history that examines the never-before-told story of one of the most devastating battles of American involvement in World War I--the battle of Montfaucon.
Download or read book The Great War written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World War I written by Francis A. March and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete history of World War I, by Francis A. March, Ph.D., in collaboration with Richard J. Beamish, Special War Correspondent and Military Analyst. With photographs by James H. Hare and Donald Thompson, plus official photographs of the U.S., Canadian, British, French, and Italian governments.
Book Synopsis A Complete History of the World War by : William Dunseath Eaton
Download or read book A Complete History of the World War written by William Dunseath Eaton and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis To Conquer Hell by : Edward G. Lengel
Download or read book To Conquer Hell written by Edward G. Lengel and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authoritative, dramatic, and previously untold story of the bloodiest battle in American history: the epic fight for the Meuse-Argonne in World War I On September 26, 1918, more than one million American soldiers prepared to assault the German-held Meuse-Argonne region of France. Their commander, General John J. Pershing, believed in the superiority of American "guts" over barbed wire, machine guns, massed artillery, and poison gas. In thirty-six hours, he said, the Doughboys would crack the German defenses and open the road to Berlin. Six weeks later, after savage fighting across swamps, forests, towns, and rugged hills, the battle finally ended with the signing of the armistice that concluded the First World War. The Meuse-Argonne had fallen, at the cost of more than 120,000 American casualties, including 26,000 dead. In the bloodiest battle the country had ever seen, an entire generation of young Americans had been transformed forever. To Conquer Hell is gripping in its accounts of combat, studded with portraits of remarkable soldiers like Pershing, Harry Truman, George Patton, and Alvin York, and authoritative in presenting the big picture. It is military history of the first rank and, incredibly, the first in-depth account of this fascinating and important battle.
