America and WWI : a traveler's guide

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Label

America and WWI : a traveler's guide

Title remainder

a traveler's guide

Statement of responsibility

Mark D. Van Ells

Title variation

America and World War I

Creator

• Van Ells, Mark D., (Mark David), 1962-

Subject

• HISTORY / Military / World War I
• Military campaigns
• United States
• United States, Army | American Expeditionary Forces
• 1914 - 1918
• Western Front (World War (1914-1918))
• World War (1914-1918)
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front
• World War, 1914-1918 -- United States
• United States, Army | American Expeditionary Forces

Language

eng

Summary

Following the doughboy fromthe home front to the western front - and mapping the many memorials built in his honor. It has now been a century since World War I began, but Americas role in this colossal struggle has been largely forgotten on both sides of the Atlantic. Historian and travel writer Mark D. Van Ells aims to change that. America and World War I follows in the footsteps of the Doughboyas the U.S. soldier of the Great War was knownfrom the training camps of the United States to the frontlines of Europe. Tracing the totality of Americas experience from the factors that led the nation to enter the war in April 1917 to the armistice in November 1918, his riveting narrative describes a military buildup on a scale the world had never seen, as well as the wars major battles and campaigns?and, throughout, it leads the traveler to the memorials erected in the Doughboys wake, as well as to the many places that remain unmarked and uncommemorated

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

940.4/0973

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction