Recommended Books on World War IIf you want to know more about World War I and what our veterans went through, the following recent books are worth reading: |
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Eisenhower, John S. D. (Brigadier General retired) with Joanne Thompson Eisenhower Yanks, The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I The Free Press, 2001. Stephen E. Ambrose wrote the following about the book. |
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Clark, George B., editor His Time in Hell, A Texas Marine in France, The World War I Memoir of Warren R. Jackson The Presidio Press, Inc., 2001. The manuscript was written in the late 1920s and found its way to a special collection of American History at the University of Texas, Austin, where it was recently discovered by Marine Corps historian George B. Clark. The following is from the inside book jacket |
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Palmer, Svetlana and Wallis, Sarah, editors Intimate Voices From the First World War William Morrow, 2003. The following is from the inside book jacket Departing from traditional histories, Intimate Voices from the First World War tells that story of the First World War entirely through the diaries and letters of its combatants, eyewitnesses, and victims. The book starts with the testimony of a Serbian teenager, one of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassins. Each chapter focuses on one important episode of the war told from opposite sides of the conflict. The diaries and letters featured were uncovered during extensive research across twenty-eight countries for the groundbreaking television series The First World War, based on the work of Professor Hew Strachan, whose introduction starts this book. |
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Persico, Joseph E. 11th Month 11th Day 11th Hour, Armistice Day, 1918, World War I and Its Violent Climax Random House, 2004 The following is from the inside book jacket Persico sets the last day of the war in historic context with a gripping reprise of all that let up to it, from the 1914 assassination of the Austrian archduke, Franz Ferdinand, which ignited the war, to the raw racism black doughboys endured except when ordered to advance and die in the war's final hour. |
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Although written several years ago, the following book is also well worth reading. |
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Stallings, Laurence The Doughboys, The Story of the AEF, 1917-1918 Harper & Row, Publishers, 1963 The following is from the inside book jacket |
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This recently published book on the last battle of World War I is a very good read. |
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Lengel, Edward G. To Conquer Hell: The Meuse-Argonne, 1918 Henry Holt and Company, 2008 Compiled from primary source material -- including previously unpublished diaries and letters -- the book is by turns grim, inspiring, and shocking in its frank depictions of battle. However, it's the lesser-known doughboy who takes center stage in To Conquer Hell -- people like 13-year-old Ernest Wrentmore, the youngest soldier in the American Expeditionary Force, who saw things no child should ever have to see and who later recounted, "To become emotional over the loss of a friend, buddy, or comrade would be to lose complete control. You had to become a piece of wood, or you'd never make it." "Each First World War battle deserves a historian; not every battle finds one. Those who fought on the Meuse-Argonne in 1918, and all Americans interested in their national heritage, are fortunate that Edward G. Lengel has written this deeply researched book - bringing the strategy, the commanders, the officers and men, the tactics, the horror and the heroism together in a moving, dramatic, and intensely human account. One of the most powerful war books that I have read." - Martin Gilbert, author of The First World War and The Somme |
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See also General Pershing's own story | |
Maps of World War I AEF campaignsThe following maps of campaigns in which the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) participated were extracted from Stallings's The Doughboys, The Story of the AEF, 1917-1918 and from Eisenhower's Yanks, The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I and provide a visual view of where our veterans were in 1918.
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