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Optimism at Armaggedon - Voices of American Participants in World War One (Hardcover, New): Mark Meigs Optimism at Armaggedon - Voices of American Participants in World War One (Hardcover, New)
Mark Meigs
R3,096 Discovery Miles 30 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The experiences of American soldiers in World War I differed enormously from those of European combatants. With the U. S. emerging from its previous isolation, soldiers arrived in the European theater late, fought briefly, and soon found themselves among the victors. Exposed for the first time to a foreign culture and bombarded by the messages of America's first concerted propaganda campaign, doughboys and other American participants struggled to make sense of their role and participation in the war.

Mark Meigs here juxtaposes more official views--as expressed in speeches and in The Stars and Stripes, army handbooks, and unit histories--with informal, widely disseminated sources, such as popular songs, jokes, and postwar fiction, together with the soldiers' own letters and journals. Optimism at Armageddon begins with an exploration of how Americans rationalized their involvement and goes on to examine the effects of veterans' experiences during the war, focusing on combat, cultural and sexual contact with their European hosts, and death and concludes with the doughboys' account of their return to American society.

Optimism at Armageddon - Voices of American Participants in the First World War (Paperback, 1st ed. 1997): Mark Meigs Optimism at Armageddon - Voices of American Participants in the First World War (Paperback, 1st ed. 1997)
Mark Meigs
R1,503 Discovery Miles 15 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An analytical account of the experiences of American soldiers in World War 1 drawing on a wide range of sources in France and the United States. Since American forces did not appear on the Western Front in substantial numbers until the summer of 1918, their experiences of the war were short and less devastating than those of their Allied comrades. Thus surviving American troops emerged from the experience in a rather more upbeat mood about the war than the Allies. This is a fascinating and ground-breaking work as few other military historians have attempted to deal with the US army of 1918 in depth.

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