Endeavour Press
The Doughboys: America and the First World War by Gary Mead
More than three million American men, many of them volunteers, joined the A.E.F. in the first 20 months of US involvement in the First World War.
Of these, over 50,000 were killed on European soil.
These were the Doughboys, the young men recruited from the cities and farms of the United Sates, who travelled across the Atlantic to aid the allies in the trenches and on the battlefields.
Without their courage and determination, the outcome of the war would have been very different.
Why did America become involved in the First World War?
What was the fighting experience of the A.E.F. in France and Russia?
Most importantly, why has the vital contribution made by the Americans been largely neglected by historians of the Great War?
Drawing upon the often harrowing personal accounts of the soldiers of the A.E.F., this book establishes the pivotal role played by the Americans in the defeat of the central powers in November 1918.
‘A fine account of the Great War...an impressive historical debut that gazes behind time's curtain at the startling, pivotal experiences of the American fighting men of WWI’ – Kirkus Reviews
Gary Mead was a journalist for the Financial Times for ten years and has worked extensively with the BBC.
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