John J. Pershing and the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, 1917-1919 (eBook)

October 1-December 31, 1917

John T. Greenwood (Herausgeber)

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2022
576 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
9780813187129 (ISBN)

Infos

General of the Armies John J. Pershing (18601948) had a long and distinguished military career, but he is most famous for leading the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. He published a memoir, My Experiences in the World War, and has been the subject of numerous biographies, but the literature regarding this towering figure and his enormous role in the First World War deserves to be expanded to include a collection of his wartime correspondence.Meticulously edited by John T. Greenwood, volume 2 of John J. Pershing and the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, 19171919 covers the period of October 1 through December 31, 1917. During this time, Pershing focused his efforts on working with the French Ministry of War, the General Staff, and the field Army on training and equipping the AEF's few available combat divisions for frontline service. Russia's defection from the coalition and the surprising Italian defeat at Caporetto in October rocked the Allied ranks, and this volume addresses the creation of the Supreme War Council and the House's American War Missionbodies that reexamined the Entente's military and diplomatic strategy and ultimately cemented the alliance.The correspondence also reveals how the House Mission revived the divisive issue of amalgamating arriving American troops into existing British and French combat divisionssomething that Pershing utterly opposed and saw as a threat to the AEF. The dispute never resolved and irritated British prime minister Lloyd George and French premier Georges Clemenceau so much that both would try to engineer Pershing's removal in the following year. Extracts from the large volume of rarely referenced cablegrams represent an important contribution to Pershing's wartime story.

Autor

John T. Greenwood is former chief of the Office of Medical History, Office of the Surgeon General, U.S. Army. He is the editor of several books, including Normandy to Victory: The War Diary of General Courtney H. Hodges and the First U.S. Army and My Life before the World War, 1860–1917: A Memoir (written by John J. Pershing). He lives in Annandale, Virginia.

Inhalt

1. Introduction to the Collection
2. Introduction to Volume 2
3. October 1917
4. November 1917
5. December 1917

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.12.2022
• Reihe/Serie: American Warriors Series
• Reihe/Serie: American Warriors Series
• Zusatzinfo: 22 b&w halftones, 4 maps, 9 tables
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Aircraft • American Expeditionary Forces • artillery • aviation • general henri-philippe pétain • general organization project • Georges Clemenceau • John J. Pershing • lines of communication • Lloyd George • Newton Baker • Railways • service of the rear project • Tasker H. Bliss • us war department • Woodrow Wilson • World War I
• ISBN-13: 9780813187129 / 9780813187129