Diary of a Yankee Doughboy in World War I
Author: Walter H. Miller
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 60
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Author: Walter H. Miller
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Connell Albertine
Publisher: Branden Books
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael E. Shay
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2008-06-20
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1603440305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorians have been unkind to the 26th Division of the U.S. Army during World War I. Despite playing a significant role in all the major engagements of the American Expeditionary Force, the “Yankee Division,” as it was commonly known, and its beloved commanding officer, Maj. Gen. Clarence Edwards, were often at odds with Gen. John J. Pershing. Subsequently, the Yankee Division became the A.E.F.’s “whipping boy,” a reputation that has largely continued to the present day. In The Yankee Division in the First World War, author Michael E. Shay mines a voluminous body of first-person accounts to set forth an accurate record of the Yankee Division in France—a record that is, as he reports, “better than most.” Shay sheds new light on the ongoing conflict in leadership and notes that two of the division’s regiments received the coveted Croix de Guerre, the first ever awarded to an American unit. This first-rate study should find a welcome place on military history bookshelves, both for scholars and students of the Great War and for interested general readers.
Author: Bruce H. Norton
Publisher:
Published: 2020-07
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9781680532012
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This is an edited collection of letters from a U.S. Army infantryman during World War I."--
Author: William J Welch
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
Published: 2024-06-30
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1399055526
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough the vivid diary entries and artwork of Harold W. Pierce, this book offers a gripping firsthand account of a young soldier's journey through World War I. April 1917. Eighteen-year-old Harold W. Pierce leaves school to join the U.S. Army, specifically the National Guard infantry company from heavily forested Warren County in northwestern Pennsylvania. He’s big for his age and he’s determined to serve his country. Thirteen months later, having trained at the steaming hot tent city of Camp Hancock in Georgia, Pierce and the rest of the 28th Division’s 112th Infantry Regiment is on its way to England and then to France. He’s one of the First Battalion’s scouts so he’ll see the war from a different perspective than the rest of the infantrymen, which includes his older brother Hugh. What Pierce sees, hears and feels will fill the small diary he keeps in his pocket. His descriptions become a diary of 79,000 words. His descriptions, his insights, his fears and his hopes bring the war to life as a young man experiences it. This young man, though, has a keen ability to express and describe that goes beyond his years: The abject terror of being in the middle of a sustained artillery barrage, his fear as he desperately tries to dig in as machine gun bullets fly inches over his head, and the relief he feels when an artillery round splits the air where he would have been if he had not – inexplicably – stopped walking. Pierce has moments when he does not want to answer the runner’s call of his name, when all he wants to do is sleep in a safe shelter. But he does answer and he goes on the patrol that all are convinced will be a one-way mission. Pierce survives it all, becoming a state police trooper in Pennsylvania after the war and later the chief law enforcement instructor for that state’s Public Service Institute until his retirement in 1966. In 1979, the diary was printed in serialized form in a small Pennsylvania newspaper. Throughout his life Pierce took to canvas to depict a variety of scenes from the World War. Included in this book are six of those paintings. Pierce died in 1983.
Author: Chester Earl Baker
Publisher: White Mane Publishing Company
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781572491007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCorporal Chester Earl Baker joined the National Guard along with relatives and friends for adventure. Suddenly the young men of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania found themselves in Mexico chasing Pancho Villa. After 1916 they became part of the 8th Regiment 7th Division, U.S. Army and, together with other Pennsylvanians, spent a year training in Georgia before they shipped out to France to help the Allies "over there." Corporal Baker, unofficial mother hen to Company F, tells a fascinating, sometimes hilarious, sometimes tender, and often heartrending tale of the year the men of Company F spent in France, before and after the Armistice. Together, they fought lice and dysentery, mutilation and death, shell shock and homesickness. In one short year, they changed from quixotic boys dreaming of glory to battle-hardened heroes, willing to lay down their own lives to save a friend's. Those who survived the bloody war, which they thought would end war forever, returned from France members of a brotherhood as sacred as Arthur's Knights of the Round Table.
Author: James H. Hallas
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2009-01-19
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 146175089X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis multilayered history of World War I's doughboys captures the experiences of American soldiers as they trained for war, voyaged to France, and faced the harsh reality of combat on the Western Front in 1917-18. Hallas uses the words of the troops themselves to describe the first days in the muddy trenches, the bloody battles for Belleau Wood, the violent clash on the Marne, the seemingly unending morass of the Argonne, and more, revealing what the doughboys saw, what they did, how they felt, and how the Great War affected them.
Author: Edward G. Lengel
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2008-01-08
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 9780805079319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn authoritative chronicle of the 1918 battle of the Meuse-Argonne region of France details the bloodiest battle in American history and offers an in-depth account of the campaign and its long-term legacy for the Great War and the American military.
Author: Owen Johnston Hopkins
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 334
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Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 1624
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