A Companion to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign

A Companion to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign
Author: Edward G. Lengel
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 549
Release: 2014-05-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1444350943

A Companion to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign explores the single largest and bloodiest battle in American military history, including its many controversies, in historiographical essays that reflect the current state of the field. Presents original essays on the French and German participation in ‒ and perspectives on ‒ this important event Makes use of original archival research from the United States, France, and Germany Contributors include WWI scholars from France, Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom Essays examine the military, social, and political consequences of the Meuse-Argonne and points the way for future scholarship in this area

The American Foreign Legion

The American Foreign Legion
Author: Frank Roberts
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2014-01-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1612515061

Still segregated in World War I, the U.S. Army was reluctant to use its 93d division of black soldiers in combat and instead assigned the division's three National Guard and one draftee regiments to the French Army. The battlefield successes of these African Americans under the French at the height of the German offensives in 1918 turned white expectations of failure upside down. Their bravery and heroism gained the respect of French and German alike and called into question the U.S. Army's policy of racially segregating its divisions. The full story of their accomplishments is told here for the first time through the eyes of the enlisted men and their white and black officers.

Torchbearers of Democracy

Torchbearers of Democracy
Author: Chad Louis Williams
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2010
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807833940

"In this important, sophisticated, and original study, Chad Williams establishes the centrality of black soldiers and veterans to the struggles against racial inequality during World War I as no other book does. Torchbearers of Democracy sensitively examines the fraught connections between citizenship, obligation, and race while highlighting the diversity of black soldiers' experiences in fighting on behalf of a democracy that denied them rights and dignity. This is a major contribution to political, military, and civil rights history."--Eric Arnesen, George Washington University.