Doughboy War: The American Expeditionary Force in World War IJames H. Hallas Stackpole Books, 19. 1. 2009. - 368 страница This 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. |
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Introduction | 1 |
1 War | 5 |
2 Over the Pond | 31 |
3 Hey Froggie | 47 |
4 Murder in the Mud | 61 |
5 First to Fight | 77 |
6 Ebb and Flow | 101 |
7 The Turn of the Tide | 121 |
11 The St Mihiel Picnic | 223 |
12 Into the Argonne | 239 |
13 Death in the Forest | 259 |
14 To the Bitter End | 293 |
15 Peace and Home | 309 |
Epilogue | 327 |
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