Pershing's Lieutenants

American Military Leadership in World War I

David T. Zabecki, Douglas V. Mastriano (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

368 Seiten

2020
Osprey Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4728-3863-6 (ISBN)

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Pershing's Lieutenants details the history of the key leaders working for and with the American Expeditionary Forces Commander-in-Chief General John J. Pershing, several of whom went on to become important figures in World War II.

World War I had a profound impact on the United States of America, which was forced to ‘grow’ an army almost overnight. The day the United States declared war on Germany, the US Army was only the 17th largest in the world, ranking behind Portugal – the Regular Army had only 128,00 troops, backed up by the National Guard with some 182,000 troops. By the end of the war it had grown to 3,700,000, with slightly more than half that number in Europe.

Until the United States did so, no country in all history had tried to deploy a 2-million-man force 3,000 miles from its own borders, a force led by American Expeditionary Forces Commander-in-Chief General John J. Pershing. This was America's first truly modern war and rising from its ranks was a new generation of leaders who would control the fate of the United States armed forces during the interwar period and into World War II.

This book reveals the history of the key leaders working for and with John J. Pershing during this tumultuous period, including George S. Patton (tank commander and future commander of the US Third Army during World War II); Douglas MacArthur (42nd Division commander and future General of the Army) and Harry S. Truman (artillery battery commander and future President of the United States).

Edited by Major General David T. Zabecki (US Army, Retired) and Colonel Douglas V. Mastriano (US Army, Retired), this fascinating title comprises chapters on individual leaders from subject experts across the US, including faculty members of the US Army War College.

David T. Zabecki (Maj. Gen. Ret) is the author, editor, or translator of seventeen military history books. His encyclopaedia, Germany at War: 400 Years of Military History, won a Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award in 2016. He is editor emeritus of Vietnam Magazine. He holds a PhD in Military History from Britain’s Royal Military College of Science, Cranfield University, where his supervisor was the late Professor Richard Holmes. In 2012 he was the Shifrin Distinguished Professor of Military History at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis. He is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the University of Birmingham’s War Studies Programme. Douglas V. Mastriano (Colonel, Retired) is the author of two books, and senior editor and primary contributor to two published strategic studies. His book, Alvin York: A New Biography of the Hero of the Argonne won four awards; William E. Colby Award, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award, U.S. Army War College Madigan Award and the Carder Family Book Prize. He was a Professor of the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Mastriano has a PhD in Military History from the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada.

Dedication
Contributors
Foreword
Maps
List of Illustrations
Introduction: The War to End All War

Part One – The Future Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Army
1: Major General John L. Hines
2: Major General Charles P. Summerall
3: Brigadier General Douglas MacArthur
4: Brigadier General Malin Craig
5: Colonel George C. Marshall

Part Two – The Future Commandants of the U.S. Marine Corps
6: Major General John A. Lejeune
7: Brigadier General Wendell C. Neville

Part Three – The Senior Staff Officers
8: Major General James G. Harbord
9: Brigadier General Fox Conner
10: Brigadier General Hugh A. Drum
11: Brigadier General Charles G. Dawes

Part Four – The Army Commanders
12: Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett
13: Lieutenant General Robert L. Bullard
14: Major General Joseph T. Dickman

Part Five – The Corps and Division Commanders
15: Major General George H. Cameron
16: Major General Clarence R. Edwards
17: Major General Robert Alexander

Part Six – The Specialist Officers
18: Brigadier General William “Billy” Mitchell
19: Colonel George S. Patton, Jr.

Part Seven – The Regimental Officers
20: Colonel William J. Donovan
21: Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
22: Major Harry S. Truman

Appendix: U.S. Army Professional Military Education in the Early 20th Century
Endnotes
Select Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.01.2021
Co-Autor	William H. Van Husen, Holt D. Theis, Jerry D. Morelock
Zusatzinfo	16pp plate section in b&w
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 242 mm
Gewicht	675 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-4728-3863-7 / 1472838637
ISBN-13	978-1-4728-3863-6 / 9781472838636
Zustand	Neuware