Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Mobilization
Allies Want U.S. Troops in France Immediately: The Day Book, April 21, 1917
In the War but not Ready for It: The Literary Digest, May 19, 1917
General “Black Jack” Pershing to Command U.S. Troops: Aberdeen Herald, June 8, 1917
Training with the National Army: The Independent, November 3, 1917
The First Contingent Sails for France: The Century Magazine, September 1917
Women Respond to the Call for Nurses: The Bourbon News, May 21, 1918
Women Recruited as Bi-Lingual Telephone Operators: The Evening World, June 24, 1918
Chapter 2: First American Troops Arrive in Europe
Paris Celebrates General Pershing’s Arrival: Harrisburg Telegraph, June 14, 1917
First U.S. Troops Land in France: The Sunday Star, July 1, 1917
America’s “Solemn-Looking Blokes” March in London: The Century Magazine, December 1917
Long, Disappointing Delay before U.S. Joins the Fight: Evening Ledger, July 6, 1917
Chapter 3: Learning to Fight
U.S. Army Must Become Greatest Force in the World: The Sunday Star, July 29, 1917
Learning to Fight a Modern War: South Bend News-Times, August 19, 1917
Troops Eager to Get in the Fight: Evening Star, August 17, 1917
American Artillery to Beat Infantry to the Front: Associated Press, September 14, 1917
Americans Trained to Attack Rather than Defend: International News Service, October 17, 1917
Chapter 4: American Firsts
First U.S. Attack on a U-Boat: The Rock Island Argus, April 25, 1917
America’s First Shot of the War: Evening Ledger, November 26, 1917
First Prisoner Taken: New York Times, October 30, 1917
First Americans to Die in the Fighting: The Daily Capital Journal, December 13, 1917
First-Time Experience in the Trenches: Washington Herald, December 28, 1917
Americans Suffer First Gas Attack: The Daily Capital Journal, February 27, 1918
Americans Get their Own Section of the Front Line: Collier’s Weekly, March 23, 1918
First U.S. Division to Engage in a Fight: The Independent, August 3, 1918
Chapter 5: At Sea
U-Boat Sinks First U.S. Ship: The Literary Digest, November 3, 1917
Watching a Troop Ship Sink: Saturday Evening Post, March 9, 1918
Convoy System Reducing Losses to U-Boats: Bismarck Daily Tribune, August 17, 1918
Vanquishing the U-Boat: Everybody’s Magazine, October 1918
Chapter 6: In the Air
American Fliers in Training: Evening Ledger, July 26, 1917
First AEF Air Victory: The Sun, June 16, 1917
Top U.S. Ace Killed: New York Tribune, May 28, 1918
A Day at an American Airfield: The Sunday Star, July 21, 1918
Rickenbacker Duels in the Sky: The Daily Gate City, August 9, 1918
Chapter 7: In the Trenches
Americans Get Their Piece of the Line: Evening Star, March 6, 1918
A Fight in No Man’s Land: Evening Star, March 26, 1918
A Visit to the Front-Line Trench: Collier’s Weekly, June 8, 1918
Soldiers of Canvas and Papier-Mâché: The Evening World, September 28, 1918
Chapter 8: Battles
Cantigny—America’s First Battle: Everybody’s Magazine, November 1918
When the Americans “Saved Paris”: Washington Times, September 28, 29, 1918
Into the Action with the Marines at Belleau Wood: American Magazine, March 1919
The First All-American Offensive: The Evening World, September 13, 1918
Argonne Fighting Breaks the German Army: Chicago Tribune, November 18, 1918
Chapter 9: Wounded Warriors
The First Flood of Wounded: New York Times, June 10, 1918
Evacuating the Wounded on a Hospital Train: The Outlook, October 16, 1918
Bringing Religion to the Gas Ward: The Outlook, October 9, 1918
Working as a Nurse’s Aide and Red Cross “Searcher”: The Bellman, October 19, 1918
Masking the Disfigurements of War: Daily Capital Journal, December 19, 1918
The Nation Prepares to Welcome Home 190,000 Wounded: The Sunday Star, December 15, 1918
Chapter 10: Heroes
Black Fighters Earn First Honors: Chicago Defender, May 25, 1918
Kidnapped by a U-Boat: New York Tribune, November 24, 1918
Story of the Lost Battalion: Chicago Tribune, October 16, 1918
Alvin York Hero of the Meuse-Argonne: Saturday Evening Post, April 26, 1919
Chapter 11: Armistice
False Armistice: El Paso Herald, November 8, 1918
The Instant the Fighting Stopped: New York Times, November 14, 1918
News of Armistice Flashed to New York: The Evening World, November 11, 1918
Aerial View of the End of the War: The Daily Capital Journal, November 18, 1918
Bibliography
Index
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