The Great War and the American Experience: The Combat Experience - Couverture rigide

Cabanes, Professor Bruno

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 2072706408 ISBN 13 : 9782072706400

Editeur : Gallimard, 2017

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The experience of American soldiers in World War I has long been neglected or misunderstood. Unlike most European nations, the United States were at war only for sixteen months. But the Great War also forged the U.S. military of the twentieth century and turned a small army, hardly prepared for combat with no tanks, no experienced commanders and no modern training system, into an army of citizen-soldiers. Relying extensively on newly discovered photographic archives, now available in France and the United States, this book explores the training camp experience at home, the journey overseas, the interaction with Allied soldiers and the local population, racial tensions, the horrors of total war, the experience of mass death, and the veterans' difficult re-entry into civilian life. Next year the French Ministry of Defence will visit the US Ministry of Defense, commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into WWI, on 6th April 1917.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Bruno Cabanes is the Donald G. and Mary A. Dunn Chair in Modern Military History at the Ohio State University. He is the author of several books on WWI, including his most recent: August 1914. France, the Great War and A Month that Changed the World Forever (Yale University Press, 2016).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Gallimard
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 2072706408
• ISBN 13: 9782072706400
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160