My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans

My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War

From the New York Times bestselling author of War Letters and Behind the Lines, Andrew Carrollâ€™s My Fellow Soldiers draws on a rich trove of both little-known and newly uncovered letters and diaries to create a marvelously vivid and moving account of the American experience in World War I, with General John Pershing featured prominently in the foreground.
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Andrew Carrollâ€™s intimate portrait of General Pershing, who led all of the American troops in Europe during World War I, is a revelation. Given a military force that on the eve of its entry into the war was downright primitive compared to the European combatants, the general surmounted enormous obstacles to build an army and ultimately command millions of U.S. soldiers. But Pershing himselfâ€”often perceived as a harsh, humorless, and wooden leaderâ€”concealed inner agony from those around him: almost two years before the United States entered the war, Pershing suffered a personal tragedy so catastrophic that he almost went insane with grief and remained haunted by the loss for the rest of his life, as private and previously unpublished letters he wrote to family members now reveal. Before leaving for Europe, Pershing also had a passionate romance with George Pattonâ€™s sister, Anne. But once he was in France, Pershing fell madly in love with a young painter named Micheline Resco, whom he later married in secret.
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Woven throughout Pershingâ€™s story are the experiences of a remarkable group of American men and women, both the famous and unheralded, including Harry Truman, Douglas Macarthur, William â€œWild Billâ€ Donovan, Teddy Roosevelt, and his youngest son Quentin. The chorus of these voices, which begins with the first Americans who enlisted in the French Foreign Legion 1914 as well as those who flew with the Lafayette Escadrille, make the high stakes of this epic American saga piercingly real and demonstrates the warâ€™s profound impact on the individuals who servedâ€”during and in the years after the conflictâ€”with extraordinary humanity and emotional force.
Country USA
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-04-04
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-04-04
Format	Kindle eBook

My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War

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