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Complete Idiot’s Guide to World War

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Complete Idiot’s Guide to World WarComplete Idiot’s Guide to World War by Alan Axelrod, Walton H. Rawls
ISBN: 0028639022
Published by Alpha on October 12th 2000
Genres: History, Military, World War I, United States, General
Pages: 432

Len's Summary: An expansion of the well-known Idiot’s Guides into WWI history. A useful reference, but one with many errors.

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Miracle at Belleau Wood: The Birth Of The Modern U.S. Marine Corps

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Miracle at Belleau Wood: The Birth Of The Modern U.S. Marine CorpsMiracle at Belleau Wood: The Birth Of The Modern U.S. Marine Corps by Alan Axelrod
ISBN: 1599210258
Published by Lyons Press on June 1st 2007
Pages: 272

Len's Summary: A new popular history of Marine participation as part of the AEF’s Second Division in the Aisne-Marne battles of mid-1918. See also At Belleau Wood, Robert Asprey, first published in 1965 and available in paperback reprint from the University of North Texas Press, $24.95, ISBN 978 81574 41016 7.

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Selling the Great War: The Making of American Propaganda

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Selling the Great War: The Making of American PropagandaSelling the Great War: The Making of American Propaganda by Alan Axelrod
ISBN: 9780230605039
Published by St. Martin's Press on March 3rd 2009
Genres: History, United States, 20th Century, Military, World War II, Social History
Pages: 256

Len's Summary: Motivated by fears than America’s multi-ethnic population would not support the war effort, President Wilson launched the federal government’s first concerted public information campaign headed by journalist George Creel.

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