Record details

• ISBN: 9780700623730
• ISBN: 0700623736
• Physical Description: xii, 758 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2017.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 709-737) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1 Pershing's Crusaders: The American Soldiers of the Great War 1 -- 2 "I Want You for the U.S. Army": Motivations, Joining Up, and Conscription 8 -- 3 "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning": Life in Training Camps 47 -- 4 Learning "The Savage Game": Training in the United States 82 -- 5 Of "Canned Willie" "Slum," and Hard Bread: The Doughboy's Food 100 -- 6 Of "Tin Hats " "Little Tanks," and Entrenching Tools: The Doughboy's Clothing and Equipment 124 -- 7 Be It Ever So Humble: The Doughboys' Shelter 146 -- 8 "Good-Bye Broadway, Hello France": Life on Board a Ship for France 159 -- 9 "The French They Have Their Customs Rare, Parlez-Vous": The Doughboys and the French and British People 180 -- 10 Of Trench Guns, Sho-Shos, and Trench Knives: The Doughboy's Weapons 211 -- 11 "Oh, the Army, the Army, the Democratic Army,... the Jews, the Wops, the Dutch and Irish Cops": Ethnic Soldiers and African Americans in the AEF 232 -- 12 Ninety-Day Wonders and Sam Brownes: The Officers and NCOs of the AEF 260 -- 13 After England Failed: Tommies, Poilus, and the American Soldiers? 281 -- 14 Harsh Schoolmasters, Devious Huns, and Dejected Prisoners: The Doughboys and the German Soldiers Meet 305 -- 15 Training and Trenches in France 325 -- 16 "Mother, Take Down Your Service Flag, Your Son's in the S.O.S.": Life in the Services of Supply and the Rear Area 349 -- 17 "How 'Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm, after They've Seen Paree?": Sex, Sin, and Temptation in the AEF 369 -- 18 "Sky Pilots," "Holy Joes," and the Doughboy's Religion 407 -- 19 Longest Hours: Preparing for Battle 431 -- 20 Big Show: The Doughboy in Combat 448 -- 21 "The Cavalry, the Artillery, the Lousy Engineers": The Artillerymen, Tankers, Combat Engineers, and Signalmen in Battle 496 -- 22 Restless Young Men with Guns: Morale and Discipline 516 -- 23 CC Pills, Going West, and the Hen-Flew-End-Ways: The Sick, the Wounded, and the Dead 566 -- 24 "And We'll All Go Back 'Cause It's Over, Over Here": The Armistice, Occupation Duty, and Returning Home 599.

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Subject:

World War, 1914-1918 > Personal narratives, American.
Soldiers > United States > History > 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 > Campaigns > Western Front > Sources.
United States > Armed Forces > Military life > History > 20th century.

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Personal narratives.

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