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Sto caricando le informazioni... My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War (edizione 2017)di Andrew Carroll (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaMy Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War di Andrew Carroll
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![]() Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. ![]() ![]() a personal history of american part in ww1; the book uses letters and diaries of soliders, nurses, and citizens to descript the war, life in the trenches. perhaps the most moving part was a nurse writing about he work on the jaw ward. this is where the men that had serious face injuries were treated Carefully researched and written history of General John Pershing and many American who fought in the Great War, this book earns its place on the shelf of WWI history. I read this because my knowledge of that war was greatly lacking and I wanted to learn about Pershing. I am amazed at the scope of this book. Andrew Carroll, Jr. starts with General John Pershing experience with the Pancho Villa Expedition and includes well known officers who were active in WWII and those who never gained recognition but sorely deserve it. He fills you in on so many areas too. The author covers the conditions of war, the reluctance of Wilson to get into it, the terrible conditions that the fighting men had in the trenches including the Germans using nerve gas, the French Foreign Legion, the Lafayette Escadrille. The story about Private Needham Roberts and Henry Johnson, is a stark contrast to the bigotry inspired by President Woodrow Wilson inspired that black soldiers faced. Those two exhibited incredible bravery worthy and were highly praised by General Pershing. That part stands out to me and many other parts like the letters about Quentin Roosevelt's death. Part of what makes this history book more alive than a statement of facts is the letters of the family and there are plenty in this book. I highly recommend this book to all history lovers but do caution that the print copy is in small print. It was a struggle for me to read with my aging eyes so those of you with the same problem may want to find another way of reading the story. I received this Advanced Reading Copy by making a selection from Amazon Vine books but that in no way influenced my thoughts or feelings in this review. I also posted this review only on sites meant for reading not for selling. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"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 with the European combatants, the general had to surmount 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 the 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 as well as those who flew with the Lafayette Escadrille, makes the high stakes of this epic American saga piercingly real, demonstrating the War's profound impact on the individuals who served--both during the conflict and in the years after--with extraordinary humanity and emotional force."--Provided by publisher. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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