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Originally Posted by bfisher
First Over There: The Attack on Cantigny, America's First Battle of World War I by Matthew J. Davenport is $CDN 3.99 this month at Amazon.ca
https://www.amazon.ca/First-Over-The.../dp/B00OO25VMM
This was a finalist for the 2015 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History |
It seems that I'm seeing more and more books lately on World War I. I think that this is a good thing. For years after World War II, it seems like the "Great War" has been overshadowed by WWII. America, and the other beliigerents, sustained an enormous amount of casualties in that war.
Too, it might be impossible to understand Germany's desire to fight another war (World War II), just 20 years later, without understanding World War I, and especially the humiliation and suffering heaped upon them by the onerous reparations that the Allies demanded, and other indignities shown to them in the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
I'm not particularly a Germany-phile, but the Allies brought World War II upon themselves to an extent. By Allies, I'm excluding the U.S., because Woodrow Wilson begged for Germany to be shown leniency. This was leniency that the other Allies were not willing to give.