Eyewitnesses to the Great War
Beginning with the novelist Edith Wharton, who toured the front in her Mercedes in 1915, this book describes the wartime experiences of American idealists (and a few rogues) on the Western Front and concludes with the doughboys'' experiences under General Pershing. Americans were "over there" from the war''s beginning in August 1914, and because America was neutral until April 1917, they saw th...
Beginning with the novelist Edith Wharton, who toured the front in her Mercedes in 1915, this book describes the wartime experiences of American idealists (and a few rogues) on the Western Front and concludes with the doughboys'' experiences under General Pershing. Americans were "over there" from the war''s beginning in August 1914, and because America was neutral until April 1917, they saw th...
