The Doughboys: America and the First World War

by Mead, Gary

• ISBN13: 9781585673230
• ISBN10: 1585673234
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA

Summary

The Doughboys were the more than three million men, many of them volunteers, recruited from the cities and farms of the United States, who traveled across the Atlantic to aid the Allies in the trenches and on the battlefields of World War I. Without their courage and determination, the outcome of the war would have been very different. Drawing upon the often harrowing personal accounts of the soldiers of the AEF, The Doughboysestablishes the pivotal role played by the Americans in the defeat of the Central powers in November 1918. Gary Mead brings together a rich selection of archive material in an engaging account that is part military history, part social analysis, part memoir. The Doughboysrecords the events of the war from the perspective of the United States, highlighting the crucial part played by the troops of the AEF and exposing the prickly, often turbulent relationship between the American and the Allied forces.

Author Biography

Gary Mead was for ten years a journalist with the Financial Times, and has worked extensively with the BBC; before which he lectured in English Literature in Poland. He is the author of the Odyssey Illustrated Guide to South Africa.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Maps	vii
Introduction and Acknowledgements	ix
No More Sleeping Treason	1	(18)
Hearts and Minds	19	(27)
Easeful Death	46	(20)
Enter the Doughboys	66	(24)
To France	90	(20)
Black Jack	110	(17)
Ships for Souls	127	(20)
July-December 1917	147	(23)
Killing Time	170	(21)
Filth, Food and Fornication	191	(17)
January-June 1918	208	(19)
Cantigny and Belleau Wood	227	(25)
July-August 1918	252	(17)
Siberia	269	(15)
September 1918	284	(23)
October 1918	307	(24)
11 November 1918	331	(16)
The Cost	347	(31)
Falling Apart in Russia	378	(18)
Aftermath	396	(25)
Appendix 1 First Arrivals in France	421	(2)
Appendix 2 Merchant and Military Shipping	423	(2)
Appendix 3 The Zimmerman Telegram	425	(1)
Appendix 4 President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points	426	(3)
Appendix 5 AEF Divisions in France, 1917-18	429	(2)
Bibliography	431	(11)
Notes	442	(37)
Index	479