The Yanks Are Coming! A Military History of the United States in World War I

✍ Scribed by H. W. Crocker, III

• Book ID: 108649565
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 347 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781621572794

✦ Synopsis

Bestselling military historian H. W. Crocker III (The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War , Robert E. Lee on Leadership , etc.) now turns his guns on the epic story of America's involvement in the First World War with his new book The Yanks Are Coming: A Military History of the United States in World War I.
2014 marks the centenary of the beginning of that war, and in Crocker's sweeping, American-focused account, readers will learn:
How George S. Patton, Douglas MacArthur, George C. Marshall (of the Marshall Plan), "Wild Bill" Donovan (future founder of the OSS, the World War II precursor to the CIA), Harry S. Truman, and many other American heroes earned their military spurs in "The Great War"
Why, despite the efforts of the almost absurdly pacifistic administration of Woodrow Wilson, American involvement in the war was inevitable
How the First World War was "the War that Made the Modern World"--sweeping away most of the crowned...