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Pershing's Crusaders : the American soldier in World War I / Richard S. Faulkner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Modern war studiesPublisher: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2017]Description: xii, 758 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780700623730 (cloth)
  • 0700623736 (cloth)
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Contents:
1. Pershing's Crusaders: The American Soldiers of the Great War -- 2. "I Want You for the U.S. Army": Motivations, Joining Up, and Conscription -- 3. "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning": Life in Training Camps -- 4. Learning "The Savage Game": Training in the United States -- 5. Of "Canned Willie," "Slum," and Hard Bread: The Doughboy's Food -- 6. Of "Tin Hats," "Little Tanks," and Entrenching Tools: The Doughboy's Clothing and Equipment -- 7. Be It Ever So Humble: The Doughboys' Shelter -- 8. "Good-Bye Broadway, Hello France": Life on Board a Ship for France -- 9. "The French They Have Their Customs Rare, Parlez-Vous": The Doughboys and the French and British People -- 10. Of Trench Guns, Sho-Shos, and Trench Knives: The Doughboy's Weapons -- 11. "Oh, the Army, the Army, the Democratic Army ... the Jews, the Wops, the Dutch and Irish Cops": Ethnic Soldiers and African-Americans in the AEF -- 12. The Ninety-Day Wonders and Sam Brownes: The Officers and NCOs of the AEF -- 13. After England Failed: Tommies, Poilus, and the American Soldiers -- 14. Harsh Schoolmasters, Devious Huns, and Dejected Prisoners: The Doughboys and the German Soldiers Meet -- 15. Training and Trenches in France -- 16. "Mother, Take Down Your Service Flag, Your Son's in the S.O.S.": Life in the Services of Supply and the Rear Area -- 17. "How 'Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm, after They've Seen Paree?": Sex, Sin, and Temptation in the AEF -- 18. "Sky Pilots," "Holy Joes," and the Doughboy's Religion -- 19. The Longest Hours: Preparing for Battle -- 20. The Big Show: The Doughboy in Combat -- 21. "The Cavalry, the Artillery, the Lousy Engineers": The Artillerymen, Tankers, Combat Engineers, and Signalmen in Battle -- 22. Restless Young Men with Guns: Morale and Discipline -- 23. CC Pills, Going West, and the Hen-Flew-End-Ways: The Sick, the Wounded, and the Dead -- 24. "And We'll All Go Back 'Cause It's Over, Over Here": The Armistice, Occupation Duty, and Returning Home.
Summary: "The most systematic, comprehensive, detailed, and up-to-date study yet published of the experiences, daily life, and representative attitudes of the American soldier (Army & Marine) in World War I. It will be a seminal source for anyone interested in the World War I-era American army and/or the history of early twentieth-century America"--Publisher.
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The Great War caught a generation of American soldiers at a turning point in the nation's history. At the moment of the Republic's emergence as a key player on the world stage, these were the first Americans to endure mass machine warfare, and the first to come into close contact with foreign peoples and cultures in large numbers. What was it like, Richard S. Faulkner asks, to be one of these foot soldiers at the dawn of the American century? How did the doughboy experience the rigors of training and military life, interact with different cultures, and endure the shock and chaos of combat? The answer can be found in Pershing's Crusaders , the most comprehensive, and intimate, account ever given of the day-to-day lives and attitudes of the nearly 4.2 million American soldiers mobilized for service in World War I.

Pershing's Crusaders offers a clear, close-up picture of the doughboys in all of their vibrant diversity, shared purpose, and unmistakably American character. It encompasses an array of subjects from the food they ate, the clothes they wore, their view of the Allied and German soldiers and civilians they encountered, their sexual and spiritual lives, their reasons for serving, and how they lived and fought, to what they thought about their service along every step of the way. Faulkner's vast yet finely detailed portrait draws upon a wealth of sources--thousands of soldiers' letters and diaries, surveys and memoirs, and a host of period documents and reports generated by various staff agencies of the American Expeditionary Forces. Animated by the voices of soldiers and civilians in the midst of unprecedented events, these primary sources afford an immediacy rarely found in historical records. Pershing's Crusaders is, finally, a work that uniquely and vividly captures the reality of the American soldier in WWI for all time.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 709-737) and index.

"The most systematic, comprehensive, detailed, and up-to-date study yet published of the experiences, daily life, and representative attitudes of the American soldier (Army & Marine) in World War I. It will be a seminal source for anyone interested in the World War I-era American army and/or the history of early twentieth-century America"--Publisher.

1. Pershing's Crusaders: The American Soldiers of the Great War -- 2. "I Want You for the U.S. Army": Motivations, Joining Up, and Conscription -- 3. "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning": Life in Training Camps -- 4. Learning "The Savage Game": Training in the United States -- 5. Of "Canned Willie," "Slum," and Hard Bread: The Doughboy's Food -- 6. Of "Tin Hats," "Little Tanks," and Entrenching Tools: The Doughboy's Clothing and Equipment -- 7. Be It Ever So Humble: The Doughboys' Shelter -- 8. "Good-Bye Broadway, Hello France": Life on Board a Ship for France -- 9. "The French They Have Their Customs Rare, Parlez-Vous": The Doughboys and the French and British People -- 10. Of Trench Guns, Sho-Shos, and Trench Knives: The Doughboy's Weapons -- 11. "Oh, the Army, the Army, the Democratic Army ... the Jews, the Wops, the Dutch and Irish Cops": Ethnic Soldiers and African-Americans in the AEF -- 12. The Ninety-Day Wonders and Sam Brownes: The Officers and NCOs of the AEF -- 13. After England Failed: Tommies, Poilus, and the American Soldiers -- 14. Harsh Schoolmasters, Devious Huns, and Dejected Prisoners: The Doughboys and the German Soldiers Meet -- 15. Training and Trenches in France -- 16. "Mother, Take Down Your Service Flag, Your Son's in the S.O.S.": Life in the Services of Supply and the Rear Area -- 17. "How 'Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm, after They've Seen Paree?": Sex, Sin, and Temptation in the AEF -- 18. "Sky Pilots," "Holy Joes," and the Doughboy's Religion -- 19. The Longest Hours: Preparing for Battle -- 20. The Big Show: The Doughboy in Combat -- 21. "The Cavalry, the Artillery, the Lousy Engineers": The Artillerymen, Tankers, Combat Engineers, and Signalmen in Battle -- 22. Restless Young Men with Guns: Morale and Discipline -- 23. CC Pills, Going West, and the Hen-Flew-End-Ways: The Sick, the Wounded, and the Dead -- 24. "And We'll All Go Back 'Cause It's Over, Over Here": The Armistice, Occupation Duty, and Returning Home.

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