How America won World War I : the US military victory in the Great World War--the causes, the course, and the consequences

Axelrod, Alan, 1952- author.

Book 2018

"Immediately after the armistice was signed in November, 1918, an American journalist asked Paul von Hindenburg who won the war against Germany. He was the chief of the German General Staff, co-architect with Erich Ludendorff of Germany's Eastern Front victories and its nearly war-winning Western Front offensives, and he did not hesitate in his answer. "The American infantry," he said. He made it even more specific, telling the reporter that the...

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World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Western Front

World War, 1914-1918 United States

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ISBN:

9781493031924

Description:

xxv, 317 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-303) and index

Contents:

Introduction. Wrong Turn in Sarajevo
Part I. Safe for Democracy. Too Proud to Fight
Tipping Point
Regimenting the Public Mind
From Over Here to Over There
Black Jack : John Joseph Pershing
Part II. The American Campaigns. First Blood : Cambrai and the Somme Defensive, November 20-December 4, 1917, and March 21-April 6, 1918
Lys : April 9-27, 1918
Aisne : May 27-June 6, 1918, including the Battle of Cantigny
Belleau Wood : June 1-26, 1918
Montdidier-Noyon and Champagne-Marne : June 9-13, 1918, and July 15-18, 1918, including the Battle of Chateau-Thierry
Aisne-Marne : July 18-August 6, 1918
Somme Offensive : August 8-November 11, 1918
Oise-Aisne : August 18-November 11, 1918
Ypres-Lys : August 19-November 11, 1918
St. Mihiel : September 12-16, 1918
Meuse-Argonne : September 26-November 11, 1918
Vittorio Veneto : October 24-November 4, 1918
Part III. Marching into the American Century. Hall of Mirrors
Normalcy

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2018003903

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2626679

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