James / Wells America and the Great War

1914 - 1920
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-82293-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 120 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: The American History Series

In America and the Great War, 1914-1920, the accomplished writing team of D. Clayton James and Anne Sharp Wells provides a succinct account of the principal military, political, and social developments in United States History as the nation responded to, and was changed by, a world in crisis.
A forthright examination of America's unprecedented military commitment and actions abroad, America and the Great War includes insights into the personalities of key Allied officers and civilian leaders as well as the evolution of the new American "citizen soldier." Full coverage is given to President Wilson's beleaguered second term, the experience of Americans-including women, minorities, and recent arrivals-on the home front, and the lasting changes left in the Great War's wake.

Autoren/Hrsg.

James, D. Clayton

Wells, Anne Sharp

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword V
Acknowledgments IX
Chapter One: The Tangled paths to Horror in Europe 1
Bloodbaths But No Decision 6
A Time of many Excitements 15
America Enters the War 23
Chapter Two: Over There 28
In Come the Yanks 29
Emergence of the Citizen-Soldier 48
Chapter Three: Nineteen Months of Progress on the Home Front 59
Agencies of War 60
Life on the Home Front 65
Progressivism and Politics 75
Chapter Four: The Final Wilson Years 79
Retreat from Global Responsibility 81
End of an Era 90
Photographs and Illustrations follow page 70
Maps: Western Front: German End-the-War Offensives, March-July, 1918 41
Western Front: Allied Offensive, September-November, 1918 45
Bibliographical Essay 99
Index 113

Über Autor(innen)

D. Clayton James has held five distinguishedprofessorships, most recently at the Virginia Military Institute. AFellow of the Society of American Historians, he has written ninebooks, notably The Years of MacArthur (in threevolumes).
Anne Sharp Wells has served on the faculties ofMississippi State University and the Virginia Military Institute.She has coauthored four books with Professor James, includingFrom Pearl Harbor to V-J Day: The American Armed Forces in WorldWar II.