Over There: The United States in the Great War, 1917-1918W. W. Norton & Company, 1999 - 336 من الصفحات When the United States finally declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917, the British and French armies were at a point of total exhaustion; within two weeks the French troops had mutinied, leaving the Western Front practically undefended. In the same month, Lenin arrived in Moscow on the heels of the Russian Revolution and vowed to make peace with Germany. In the course of a few months the American army would grow from 200,000 ill-equipped and untrained men to over one million, but it was longer still before the French and British commanders took General Pershing and his recruits seriously. Byron Farwell's informed and colorful narrative covers all phases of the American effort, from the home front, where the war introduced rapid technical and social changes that were difficult to absorb, to the desperate encounters in the front lines of Belleau Wood and the St. Mihiel salient, where American troops proved their valor and altered the course of the war. The author, whose previous books include Stonewall Jackson and Queen Victoria's Little Wars, paints a vivid and memorable picture of the intense national experience whereby America came of age in the twentieth century. |
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PROLOGUE | 11 |
INTRODUCTION | 15 |
Edging Toward War | 21 |
The United States Enters the War | 31 |
The Tools and Engines of Destruction | 42 |
Finding the Men and Tools | 49 |
Training in the United States | 60 |
The War at Sea The AntiSubmarine Campaign | 69 |
The MeuseArgonne Offensive | 156 |
Second Battle of the Marne On the Aisne River | 161 |
Second Battle of the Marne Final Phase | 177 |
The War in the Air | 189 |
The St Mihiel Offensive | 195 |
1216 September 1918 | 206 |
MeuseArgonne The Final Phase | 229 |
Americans Under European Commanders | 245 |
The War at Sea Getting the Army Over There | 79 |
The AEF Arrives Over There | 87 |
France First Casualties | 99 |
Trench Warfare | 110 |
First Battles Seicheprey and Cantigny | 115 |
Home Front | 122 |
Army Welfare | 135 |
Venereal Disease | 141 |
Blacks and Indians in the American Army | 148 |
Armistice | 253 |
The Army of Occupation and the Wait | 267 |
Intervention in Northern Russia and Siberia | 273 |
Return of the Legions | 285 |
Epilogue Medals and Other Honors | 295 |
Words and Expressions from the Great War | 301 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 315 |
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