Yanks: The Epic Story of the American Army in World War ISimon and Schuster, 14. 9. 2001 - Počet stran: 368 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. |
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Strana iii
... United States and the Mexican Revolution, 1913–1917 So Far from God: The U.S. War with Mexico, 1846–1848 Allies: Pearl Harbor to D-Day The Bitter Woods: The Battle of the Bulge YANKS The Epic Story of the American Army in World.
... United States and the Mexican Revolution, 1913–1917 So Far from God: The U.S. War with Mexico, 1846–1848 Allies: Pearl Harbor to D-Day The Bitter Woods: The Battle of the Bulge YANKS The Epic Story of the American Army in World.
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... BATTLES Baptism of Fire 79 The Calm Before the Storm 93 Unified Command at Last! 100 “I Will Not Be Coerced” 111 The Big Red One at Cantigny 121 The 2d Division at Belleau Wood 135 TWELVE THIRTEEN FOURTEEN The Rock of the Marne Soissons ...
... BATTLES Baptism of Fire 79 The Calm Before the Storm 93 Unified Command at Last! 100 “I Will Not Be Coerced” 111 The Big Red One at Cantigny 121 The 2d Division at Belleau Wood 135 TWELVE THIRTEEN FOURTEEN The Rock of the Marne Soissons ...
Strana xiv
... Battle Monuments Commission, with offices in Paris. One of his tasks was to draft the official Guide to the American Battlefields in France. The end result was a remarkable book; it remains today the best available guide for the student ...
... Battle Monuments Commission, with offices in Paris. One of his tasks was to draft the official Guide to the American Battlefields in France. The end result was a remarkable book; it remains today the best available guide for the student ...
Strana 4
... battle. Both Hindenburg and Ludendorff adamantly supported the submarine policy and were unafraid of bringing America into the war. Even if America entered, Hindenburg believed, German submarines would prevent America from sending any ...
... battle. Both Hindenburg and Ludendorff adamantly supported the submarine policy and were unafraid of bringing America into the war. Even if America entered, Hindenburg believed, German submarines would prevent America from sending any ...
Strana 12
... battle against the highly professional German Army could not be accomplished instantaneously. To make American troops immediately effective, therefore, Joffre's first inclination was to urge the Americans to furnish the French and ...
... battle against the highly professional German Army could not be accomplished instantaneously. To make American troops immediately effective, therefore, Joffre's first inclination was to urge the Americans to furnish the French and ...
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Organizing The Aef | 51 |
The Supreme War Council | 67 |
Apprenticeship The Opening Battles | 77 |
St MihielDress Rehearsal | 179 |
The Race Against Time | 198 |
MontfauconOminous Victory | 210 |
Argonne | 224 |
Feelers For Peace | 240 |
First Army Comes Of Age | 250 |
The Windup | 262 |
The Railroad Car At Compiegne | 273 |
Baptism Of Fire | 79 |
The Calm Before The Storm | 93 |
Unified Command At Last | 100 |
I Will Not Be Coerced | 111 |
The Big Red One At Cantigny | 121 |
The 2D Division At Belleau Wood | 135 |
The Rock Of The Marne | 151 |
SoissonsThe Turning Point | 162 |
The Aef Fights Independently St Mihieland The Meuseargonne | 177 |
The End Of The Aef | 284 |
Epilogue | 290 |
Mobilization | 298 |
Notes | 302 |
Bibliography | 329 |
Acknowledgments | 335 |
Index | 337 |
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Yanks: The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I John S. D. Eisenhower,Joanne Thompson Eisenhower Zobrazení fragmentů - 2001 |
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Strana 10 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
Strana 7 - I cannot bring myself to believe that they will indeed pay no regard to the ancient friendship between their people and our own or to the solemn obligations which have been exchanged between them and destroy American ships and take the lives of American citizens in the...
Strana 245 - The present German Government which has undertaken the responsibility for this step towards peace has been formed by conferences and in agreement with the great majority of the Reichstag. The chancellor, supported in all of his actions by the will of this majority, speaks in the name of the German Government and of the German people.
Strana 34 - In military operations against the Imperial German Government, you are directed to cooperate with the forces of the other countries employed against that enemy; but in so doing the underlying idea must be kept in view that the forces of the United States are a separate and distinct component of the combined forces, the identity of which must be preserved.
Strana 114 - J |_I have come to tell you that the American people would consider it a great honor for our troops to be engaged in the present battle. I ask you for this in their name and my own.
Strana 244 - ... the people of the United States, have been a disgrace to Christian civilization, culminating, as they have, in the destruction of a United States...
Strana 9 - It is a fearful thing to lead this great, peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all .wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance...
Strana 280 - I am instructed by the President to say that he is in agreement with the interpretation set forth in the last paragraph of the memorandum above quoted. I am further instructed by the President to request you to notify the German Government that Marshal Foch has been authorized by the Government of the United States and the Allied Governments to receive properly accredited representatives of the German Government, and to communicate to them terms of an armistice.
Strana 83 - Here lie the first soldiers of the Republic of the United States to fall on the soil of France for liberty and justice.
Strana 326 - American Expeditionary Forces who by their heroic efforts have made possible this glorious result. Our Armies, hurriedly raised and hastily trained, met a veteran enemy, and by courage, discipline and skill always defeated him. Without complaint you have endured incessant toil, privation and danger. You have seen many of your comrades make the supreme sacrifice that freedom may live. I thank you for the patience and courage with which you have endured. I congratulate you upon the splendid fruits...
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