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Book The Pershing Family in America

Download or read book The Pershing Family in America written by Edgar Jamison Pershing and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pershing Family in America

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  • Author : E. Pershing
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999-12-01
  • ISBN : 9780740432323
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book Pershing Family in America written by E. Pershing and published by . This book was released on 1999-12-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pershing Family

Book The Pershing Family in America

Download or read book The Pershing Family in America written by Edgar Jamison Pershing and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pershing Family in American

Download or read book The Pershing Family in American written by Edgar Jamison Pershing and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Incidents in the Life of General John J  Pershing

Download or read book Incidents in the Life of General John J Pershing written by Cullom Holmes Farrell and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book My Fellow Soldiers

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  • Author : Andrew Carroll
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2017-04-04
  • ISBN : 0698192664
  • Pages : 417 pages

Download or read book My Fellow Soldiers written by Andrew Carroll and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of War Letters and Behind the Lines, Andrew Carroll’s My Fellow Soldiers 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 to the European combatants, the general surmounted 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 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 1914 as well as those who flew with the Lafayette Escadrille, make the high stakes of this epic American saga piercingly real and demonstrates the war’s profound impact on the individuals who served—during and in the years after the conflict—with extraordinary humanity and emotional force.

Book Pershing s Crusaders

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  • Author : Richard S. Faulkner
  • Publisher : University Press of Kansas
  • Release : 2017-03-17
  • ISBN : 0700623736
  • Pages : 778 pages

Download or read book Pershing s Crusaders written by Richard S. Faulkner and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great War caught a generation of American soldiers at a turning point in the nation's history. At the moment of the Republic's emergence as a key player on the world stage, these were the first Americans to endure mass machine warfare, and the first to come into close contact with foreign peoples and cultures in large numbers. What was it like, Richard S. Faulkner asks, to be one of these foot soldiers at the dawn of the American century? How did the doughboy experience the rigors of training and military life, interact with different cultures, and endure the shock and chaos of combat? The answer can be found in Pershing's Crusaders, the most comprehensive, and intimate, account ever given of the day-to-day lives and attitudes of the nearly 4.2 million American soldiers mobilized for service in World War I. Pershing’s Crusaders offers a clear, close-up picture of the doughboys in all of their vibrant diversity, shared purpose, and unmistakably American character. It encompasses an array of subjects from the food they ate, the clothes they wore, their view of the Allied and German soldiers and civilians they encountered, their sexual and spiritual lives, their reasons for serving, and how they lived and fought, to what they thought about their service along every step of the way. Faulkner's vast yet finely detailed portrait draws upon a wealth of sources—thousands of soldiers' letters and diaries, surveys and memoirs, and a host of period documents and reports generated by various staff agencies of the American Expeditionary Forces. Animated by the voices of soldiers and civilians in the midst of unprecedented events, these primary sources afford an immediacy rarely found in historical records. Pershing's Crusaders is, finally, a work that uniquely and vividly captures the reality of the American soldier in WWI for all time.

Book The Story of General Pershing

Download or read book The Story of General Pershing written by Everett T. Tomlinson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of General Pershing by Everett T. Tomlinson is a detailed biography of General of the Armies John Joseph Pershing GCB. Nicknamed "Black Jack", General Pershing was a senior United States Army officer. He served most famously as the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) on the Western Front during World War I, from 1917 to 1918. In addition to leading the AEF to victory in World War I, Pershing notably served as a mentor to many in the generation of generals who led the United States Army during World War II, including George C. Marshall, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, Lesley J. McNair, George S. Patton, and Douglas MacArthur.

Book John J Pershing  General of the Armies

Download or read book John J Pershing General of the Armies written by Frederick Palmer and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book You are Invited to Attend the Annual Reunion of the Pershing Family and the Dedication of a Memorial to Frederick Pershing  the First of the Name in America at Idlewild Park  Westmoreland County  Pennsylvania  Saturday  September 8th  1923

Download or read book You are Invited to Attend the Annual Reunion of the Pershing Family and the Dedication of a Memorial to Frederick Pershing the First of the Name in America at Idlewild Park Westmoreland County Pennsylvania Saturday September 8th 1923 written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book My Fellow Soldiers

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  • Author : Andrew Carroll
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2018-02-06
  • ISBN : 0143110810
  • Pages : 417 pages

Download or read book My Fellow Soldiers written by Andrew Carroll and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of War Letters and Behind the Lines, Andrew Carroll’s My Fellow Soldiers 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 to the European combatants, the general surmounted 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 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 1914 as well as those who flew with the Lafayette Escadrille, make the high stakes of this epic American saga piercingly real and demonstrates the war’s profound impact on the individuals who served—during and in the years after the conflict—with extraordinary humanity and emotional force.

Book My Experiences in the World War

Download or read book My Experiences in the World War written by John Joseph Pershing and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two volumes focus on a American Expeditionary Forces soldier's experiences in France during World War I.

Book Until the Last Trumpet Sounds

Download or read book Until the Last Trumpet Sounds written by Gene Smith and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-05-02 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Praise for Gene Smith On Until the Last Trumpet Sounds "The best recent compact study of the commander of the American Expeditionary Force of World War I." Booklist "A six-star effort . . . captures Pershing better than anyone has before." The Grand Rapids Press On The Shattered Dream "A storyteller of history, Gene Smith is one of the very best in his field." The Washington Post On When the Cheering Stopped "A brilliantly written and dramatically effective work of history . . . Smith is a prodigious researcher, an artful writer." The New York Times On American Gothic "A ripping good tale . . . the story rivets you. You can t put the book down." The New York Times Book Review

Book Pershing

Download or read book Pershing written by John Perry and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other American military leader is so important and yet so little known as John J. Pershing. He led an army of more than a million men in France, defeating the seemingly invincible German war machine with only six months of offensive action. He was an American hero, and yet, today, General Pershing has faded away to the second or third tier of America’s historical consciousness. His accomplishments rightly place him in the company of great generals such as MacArthur, Eisenhower, and Patton, all of whom he commanded and inspired, and all of whom he outranked. He shaped world events in Europe as surely as Woodrow Wilson or David Lloyd George,so why has America forgotten him? John Perry chronicles the life of a strong, inflexible leader who was an insufferable nit-picker on the job, but a faithful friend, tender husband, and devoted father. To the small group fortunate enough to know him, Pershing was a great and wonderful man. To the rest, he was stiff, cold, impersonal, and best avoided.

Book The General and the Jaguar

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  • Author : Eileen Welsome
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2007-11-01
  • ISBN : 9780803222243
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book The General and the Jaguar written by Eileen Welsome and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize winner Welsome's gripping, panoramic story reveals a vicious surprise attack on the United States and America's hunt for the perpetrator, Pancho Villa.

Book General Fox Conner

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  • Author : Steven Rabalais
  • Publisher : Casemate Publishers
  • Release : 2016-11-30
  • ISBN : 1612003982
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book General Fox Conner written by Steven Rabalais and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Army Historical Society Distinguished Writing Award. “Anyone interested in American military history will find it a treasure” (Karl Roider, Alumni Professor Emeritus, Louisiana State University). During World War I, Gen. Conner served as chief of operations for the American Expeditionary Force in Europe. Gen. Pershing told Conner: “I could have spared any other man in the A.E.F. better than you.” In the early 1920s, Conner transformed his protégé Dwight D. Eisenhower from a struggling young officer on the verge of a court martial into one of the American army’s rising stars. Eisenhower acknowledged Fox Conner as “the one more or less invisible figure to whom I owe an incalculable debt.” This book presents the first complete biography of this significant, but now forgotten, figure in American military history. In addition to providing a unique insider’s view into the operations of the American high command during World War I, General Fox Conner also tells the story of an interesting life. Conner felt a calling to military service, although his father had been blinded during the Civil War. From humble beginnings in rural Mississippi, Conner became one of the army’s intellectuals. During the 1920s, when most of the nation slumbered in isolationism, Conner predicted a second world war. As the nation began to awaken to new international dangers in the 1930s, Pres. Roosevelt offered Fox Conner the position of army chief of staff, which he declined. Poor health prevented his participation in World War II, while others whom he influenced, including Eisenhower, Patton, and Marshall, went on to fame. “A biography that is both dramatic and compelling.” —Mark Perry, author of The Pentagon’s Wars