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Book With the Yanks in France

Download or read book With the Yanks in France written by Vincent F. Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1918* with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book With the Yanks in France

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  • Author : Vincent F. Sullivan
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2018-01-31
  • ISBN : 9780267417834
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book With the Yanks in France written by Vincent F. Sullivan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from With the Yanks in France: A Story of America in France I implore my readers not to be over expectant before reading this narrative. It is but a series of facts that actually occurred during that horrible struggle for the cause of humanity in which most of us participated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book I Was There  with the Yanks in France

Download or read book I Was There with the Yanks in France written by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-10 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrations are not provided in this version.Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to [email protected] book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via [email protected]

Book  I was There   with the Yanks in France

Download or read book I was There with the Yanks in France written by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Yanks

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  • Author : John Eisenhower
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2001-09-14
  • ISBN : 0743216377
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Yanks written by John Eisenhower and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-09-14 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fought far from home, World War I was nonetheless a stirring American adventure. The achievements of the United States during that war, often underrated by military historians, were in fact remarkable, and they turned the tide of the conflict. So says John S. D. Eisenhower, one of today's most acclaimed military historians, in his sweeping history of the Great War and the men who won it: the Yanks of the American Expeditionary Force. Their men dying in droves on the stalemated Western Front, British and French generals complained that America was giving too little, too late. John Eisenhower shows why they were wrong. The European Allies wished to plug the much-needed U.S. troops into their armies in order to fill the gaps in the line. But General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, the indomitable commander of the AEF, determined that its troops would fight together, as a whole, in a truly American army. Only this force, he argued -- not bolstered French or British units -- could convince Germany that it was hopeless to fight on. Pershing's often-criticized decision led to the beginning of the end of World War I -- and the beginning of the U.S. Army as it is known today. The United States started the war with 200,000 troops, including the National Guard as well as regulars. They were men principally trained to fight Indians and Mexicans. Just nineteen months later the Army had mobilized, trained, and equipped four million men and shipped two million of them to France. It was the greatest mobilization of military forces the New World had yet seen. For the men it was a baptism of fire. Throughout Yanks Eisenhower focuses on the small but expert cadre of officers who directed our effort: not only Pershing, but also the men who would win their lasting fame in a later war -- MacArthur, Patton, and Marshall. But the author has mined diaries, memoirs, and after-action reports to resurrect as well the doughboys in the trenches, the unknown soldiers who made every advance possible and suffered most for every defeat. He brings vividly to life those men who achieved prominence as the AEF and its allies drove the Germans back into their homeland -- the irreverent diarist Maury Maverick, Charles W. Whittlesey and his famous "lost battalion," the colorful Colonel Ulysses Grant McAlexander, and Sergeant Alvin C. York, who became an instant celebrity by singlehandedly taking 132 Germans as prisoners. From outposts in dusty, inglorious American backwaters to the final bloody drive across Europe, Yanks illuminates America's Great War as though for the first time. In the AEF, General John J. Pershing created the Army that would make ours the American age; in Yanks that Army has at last found a storyteller worthy of its deeds.

Book I was There   with the Yanks in France  Sketches Made on the Western Front  1917 1919  by Pvt C  Le Roy Baldridge    Verse by Pvt Hilmar R  Baukhage

Download or read book I was There with the Yanks in France Sketches Made on the Western Front 1917 1919 by Pvt C Le Roy Baldridge Verse by Pvt Hilmar R Baukhage written by Hilmar-R. Baukhage and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book  I was There  with the Yanks in France

Download or read book I was There with the Yanks in France written by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Replacing France

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  • Author : Kathryn C. Statler
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2007-06-22
  • ISBN : 0813137322
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book Replacing France written by Kathryn C. Statler and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2007-06-22 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using recently released archival materials from the United States and Europe, Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam explains how and why the United States came to assume control as the dominant western power in Vietnam during the 1950s. Acting on their conviction that American methods had a better chance of building a stable, noncommunist South Vietnamese nation, Eisenhower administration officials systematically ejected French military, economic, political, bureaucratic, and cultural institutions from Vietnam. Kathryn C. Statler examines diplomatic maneuvers in Paris, Washington, London, and Saigon to detail how Western alliance members sought to transform South Vietnam into a modern, westernized, and democratic ally but ultimately failed to counter the Communist threat. Abetted by South Vietnamese prime minister Ngo Dinh Diem, Americans in Washington, D.C., and Saigon undermined their French counterparts at every turn, resulting in the disappearance of a French presence by the time Kennedy assumed office. Although the United States ultimately replaced France in South Vietnam, efforts to build South Vietnam into a nation failed. Instead, it became a dependent client state that was unable to withstand increasing Communist aggression from the North. Replacing France is a fundamental reassessment of the origins of U.S. involvement in Vietnam that explains how Franco-American conflict led the United States to pursue a unilateral and ultimately imperialist policy in Vietnam.

Book Before the Yanks Came

Download or read book Before the Yanks Came written by Arthur Irving Donahue and published by . This book was released on 194? with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Yankees at the Court

Download or read book Yankees at the Court written by Susan Mary Alsop and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1982 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author discusses the experiences of the first American diplomats in the court of Versailles during the years 1775-85. This book includes Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay.

Book I ll Never Be French  no Matter what I Do

Download or read book I ll Never Be French no Matter what I Do written by Mark Greenside and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-11-04 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author and teacher Mark Greenside recounts his struggles to fit into the life of a small Celtic village in Brittany.

Book  I was There  with the Yanks on the Western Front  1917 1919

Download or read book I was There with the Yanks on the Western Front 1917 1919 written by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sketches in this book were made during the author's service as a driver with the French Army in the Chemin des Dames sector and a year's service with the American Expeditionary Forces as an infantry private with "The Stars and Stripes," the official AEF newspaper. He drew many of these during the French push of 1917 near Fort Malmaison, as well as on American fronts from the Argonne to Belgium.

Book The Yanks Are Coming

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  • Author : H. W. Crocker
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2014-09-23
  • ISBN : 162157279X
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book The Yanks Are Coming written by H. W. Crocker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling military historian H. W. Crocker III (The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War, Robert E. Lee on Leadership, etc.) now turns his guns on the epic story of America’s involvement in the First World War with his new book The Yanks Are Coming: A Military History of the United States in World War I. 2014 marks the centenary of the beginning of that war, and in Crocker’s sweeping, American-focused account, readers will learn: How George S. Patton, Douglas MacArthur, George C. Marshall (of the Marshall Plan), "Wild Bill" Donovan (future founder of the OSS, the World War II precursor to the CIA), Harry S. Truman, and many other American heroes earned their military spurs in "The Great War" Why, despite the efforts of the almost absurdly pacifistic administration of Woodrow Wilson, American involvement in the war was inevitable How the First World War was "the War that Made the Modern World"—sweeping away most of the crowned heads of Europe, redrawing the map of the Middle East, setting the stage for the rise of communism and fascism Why the First World War marked America’s transition from a frontier power—some of our World War I generals had actually fought Indians—to a global superpower, with World War I generals like Douglas MacArthur living to see, and help shape, the nuclear age "The Young Lions of the War" -- heroes who should not be forgotten, like air ace Eddie Rickenbacker, Sergeant Alvin York (memorably portrayed by Gary Cooper in the Academy Award–winning movie Sergeant York), and all four of Theodore Roosevelt’s sons (one of whom was killed) Stirring, and full of brilliantly told stories of men at war, The Yanks Are Coming will be the essential book for readers interested in rediscovering America’s role in the First World War on its hundredth anniversary.

Book France During World War II

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  • Author : Thomas Rodney Christofferson
  • Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 0823225623
  • Pages : 271 pages

Download or read book France During World War II written by Thomas Rodney Christofferson and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides an introduction to almost every aspect of the French experience during World War II by integrating political, diplomatic, military, social, cultural and economic history. It chronicles the battles and campaigns that stained French soil with blood.

Book Yanks behind the Lines

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  • Author : Jeffrey B. Miller
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2020-10-20
  • ISBN : 1538141655
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Yanks behind the Lines written by Jeffrey B. Miller and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2021 Colorado Book Awards, History Winner, 2021 American Fest’s Best Book Awards, History: Military “This is a powerful work of history, as informative as it is dramatically gripping. An impressive blend of painstaking historical scholarship and riveting storytelling.”—Kirkus Reviews More than nine million soldiers died in World War I. At the same time, a US-led effort saved nearly ten million civilians from starvation behind the lines during the German occupation, yet one of America’s greatest humanitarian efforts is virtually unknown today. In this gripping book, Jeffrey B. Miller tells the remarkable history of two American and Belgian citizen-created organizations that led a massive food relief program for civilians trapped in German-occupied Belgium and northern France. Herbert Hoover, then a successful international businessman, was the driving force behind the effort, coercing and bullying the governments of Germany, Great Britain, France, and the United States to allow a group of idealistic young volunteers to organize in occupied Belgium and coordinate the distribution of tons of food and clothing to desperate Belgians. These crusaders, known as CRB delegates, had to maintain strict neutrality as they watched the Belgians suffer under the harsh German regime. Miller tells compelling stories of German brutality, Belgian relief efforts, and the idealistic Americans who went into German-occupied Belgium from October 1914 up to May 1917, when they were forced to leave after the April entry into the war of the United States. Yanks interweaves the history of the time with fascinating personal stories of volunteers, diplomats, a young Belgian woman who started a dairy farm to feed Antwerp’s children, the autocratic head of the Belgian relief organization, and the founder of the American organization, who would become known to the world as the Great Humanitarian and later, largely because of his work in Belgium and post-war Europe, would become the thirty-first president of the United States. Visit the book’s website here: www.YanksBehindTheLines.com Watch the book trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0YKJRrSe4o