![]() ![]() Perhaps never before have so many topics about this Great War been covered with such economy and to such effect. What the book lacks in fresh insights or perspective it makes up for in compactness, comprehensiveness, balance, and style. It’s hard to imagine a better, and better-written, tale of the US’s first military venture on European soil. Farwell, a vivid chronicler of military forces, generals, and wars (Armies of the Raj: From Mutiny to Independence, 1989, etc.), here describes that extraordinary build-up of American armed might and what it wrought. Nineteen months later, the nation’s armed and naval forces had grown to 4 million people, and their deployment had tipped the balance of war in Europe against the Central Powers. In 1917, on the eve of its entry into WWI, the US was without a single army division. ![]() A well-told narrative of US participation in the most godawful and useless of modern wars. ![]()
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