Author: George Jenks ShivelyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Record of S.S.U. 585
Author: George Jenks ShivelyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The History of the U.S. Army Medical Service Corps
Author: Richard V. N. GinnPublisher: Defense Department
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
The Compensations of War
Author: Bowerman Guy EmersonPublisher: Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN: 0292749171
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This remarkable chronicle of one man’s rite of passage through the crucible of WWI offers a vividly detailed account of life on the Western Front. In 1917, shortly after the United States’ declaration of war on Germany, Guy Emerson Bowerman, Jr., enlisted in the American army’s ambulance service. Like other young ambulance drivers―Hemingway, Dos Passos, Cummings, Cowley―Bowerman longed to “see the show.” For seventeen months, until the armistice of November 1918, Bowerman kept an almost daily diary of the war. Only twenty when he enlisted, Bowerman was an idealistic young man who exulted that his section was made up mostly of young “Yalies” like himself. But he expected the war to change him, and it did. In the end he writes that he and his compatriots scarcely remember a world at peace. Bowerman’s unit was attached to a French infantry division stationed near Verdun. Sent to halt the German drive to Paris in 1918, the division participated in the decisive counterattack of July and tracked the routed Germans through Belgium. Then, “unwarned,” Bowerman and his comrades were “plunged into . . . a life of peace.” Into this life, he writes, they walked “bewildered,” like “men fearing ambush.”
United States Army Unit Histories
Author: US Army Military History InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Histories of American Army Units
Author: Charles Emil DornbuschPublisher: Washington : Department of the Army, Office of the Adjutant General, Special Services Division, Library and Service Club Branch
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Library Record
Author: Free Public Library of Jersey CityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Special Bibliography
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The Library Catalogs of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University
Author: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and PeacePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : International relations
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Indiana University Alumni Quarterly
Author: American Sports and the Great War
Author: Peter C. StewartPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476640440
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Drawing on newspaper accounts, college yearbooks and the recollections of veterans, this book examines the impact of World War I on sports in the U.S. As young men entered the military in large numbers, many colleges initially considered suspending athletics but soon turned to the idea of using sports to build morale and physical readiness. Recruits, mostly in their twenties, ended up playing more baseball and football than they would have in peacetime. Though most college athletes volunteered for military duty, others replaced them so that the reduction of competition was not severe. Pugilism gained participants as several million men learned how to box.