Liberty Theatres of the United States Army, 1917-1919 by Weldon B. Durham ISBN: 9780786425396
Published by McFarland & Company on January 1st 2006
Genres: Japan, Military, United States, Theater
Pages: 219
Len's Summary: In in-depth look at the 42 theatres built by the War Department aimed at presenting "morally uplifting" plays and motion pictures for the Doughboys in training.
Lafayette Escadrille: America’s Most Famous Squadron
Lafayette Escadrille: America’s Most Famous Squadron by Narayan Sengupta on 2013
Pages: 202
Len's Summary: A useful summary history of Escadrille exploits and on the later lives of its pilots.
Sergeant Stubby: How a Stray Dog and His Best Friend Helped Win World War I and Stole the Heart of a Nation
Sergeant Stubby: How a Stray Dog and His Best Friend Helped Win World War I and Stole the Heart of a Nation by Ann Bausum ISBN: 9781426214653
Published by National Geographic Society on May 5th 2015
Pages: 240
Len's Summary: A doughboy’s pet becomes a decorated war hero. Light hearted history. A History Book Club selection.
Sky Pilots: The Yankee Division Chaplains in World War I
Sky Pilots: The Yankee Division Chaplains in World War I by Michael E. Shay ISBN: 9780826220318
Published by University of Missouri Press on July 30th 2014
Pages: 240
Len's Summary: A look at the role of US Army chaplains in WWI.
America and World War I: A Traveler’s Guide
America and World War I: A Traveler's Guide by Mark D. Van Ells ISBN: 1566569753
Published by Interlink Books on September 1st 2014
Pages: 320
Len's Summary: Covers major battles and battlefields of the AEF, memorials, cemeteries, training and embarkation sites, doughboy correspondence, diaries and memoirs, as well as service organizations such as the Red Cross and YMCA.
Artillery Scout: The Story of a Forward Observer with the U.S. Field Artillery in World War I
Artillery Scout: The Story of a Forward Observer with the U.S. Field Artillery in World War I by James G. Bilder ISBN: 1612002714
Published by Casemate Publishers on October 19th 2014
Genres: Military, United States
Pages: 256
Len's Summary: Drawing on his grandfather’s letters and diaries, the author reconstructs life on the sharp point of combat. // Based on accounts of the author’s grandfather, who served with the 91st Division AEF.
When Hollywood Ruled the Skies: The Aviation Film Classics of World War I
When Hollywood Ruled the Skies: The Aviation Film Classics of World War I by Bruce W. Orriss ISBN: 9780879100568
Published by Aero Associates on January 1st 1986
Len's Summary: Eight decades of Hollywood’s take on the Great War in the skies.
The First Eagles: The Fearless American Aces Who Flew with the RAF in World War I
The First Eagles: The Fearless American Aces Who Flew with the RAF in World War I by Gavin Mortimer ISBN: 9780760346396
Published by Zenith Press on August 1st 2014
Pages: 240
Len's Summary: Impatient American volunteer for the RAF; Twenty went on to be aces. Riddled with as many factual errors as holes in Snoopy’s imaginary pursuit aircraft..
Sowing the Seeds of Victory: American Gardening Programs of World War I
Sowing the Seeds of Victory: American Gardening Programs of World War I by Rose Hayden-Smith ISBN: 9780786470204
Published by McFarland on April 24th 2014
Genres: Social Science, Agriculture & Food, Military, United States
Pages: 264
Len's Summary: Examines the War Garden Commission, the U S School Garden Army and the Women’s Land Army as well as the Victory Garden program, voluntary efforts to increase war-time food production creating a surplus for food relief to embattled Europe. All were part of a vast volunteer empire headed by wartime Federal Food Administrator Herbert Hoover.
Letters and Photographs from the Battle Country: The World War I Memoir of Margaret Hall
Letters and Photographs from the Battle Country: The World War I Memoir of Margaret Hall by Margaret Hall ISBN: 9781936520077
Published by Massachusetts Historical Society on August 18th 2014
Pages: 225
Len's Summary: Margaret Hall was an American Red Cross volunteer working at a canteen just behind the front in 1918. After the Armistice she traveled across France recording scenes of physical destruction and human suffering. The editor is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut and has written several other books on women in WWI.
The 104th Field Artillery Regiment of the New York National Guard, 1916-1919: From the Mexican Border to the Meuse-argonne
The 104th Field Artillery Regiment of the New York National Guard, 1916-1919: From the Mexican Border to the Meuse-argonne by Pamela A. Bakker ISBN: 9780786479153
Published by McFarland on May 20th 2014
Genres: Military, United States
Pages: 228
Len's Summary: This regiment was incorporated into the AEF’s 27th Division.
Billy Mitchell’s War with the Navy: The Interwar Rivalry Over Air Power
Billy Mitchell's War with the Navy: The Interwar Rivalry Over Air Power by Thomas Wildenberg ISBN: 0870210386
Published by US Naval Institute Press on October 15th 2013
Pages: 288
Attack on Orleans: The World War I Submarine Raid on Cape Cod
Attack on Orleans:: The World War I Submarine Raid on Cape Cod by Jake Klim ISBN: 9781626194908
Published by The History Press on June 10th 2014
Pages: 128
Len's Summary: The first attack in American shores since the War of 1812 occurred when a long-range U-Boat shelled a string of coastal barges off Nauset Beach.
Doughboys on the Great War: How American Soldiers Viewed their Military Experience
Doughboys on the Great War: How American Soldiers Viewed Their Military Experience by Edward A. Gutièrrez ISBN: 9780700619900
Published by University Press of Kansas on September 19th 2014
Pages: 308
Len's Summary: Illuminates the war through veterans’ own statements. // Remembrances of America soldiers written in 1919 when memories were fresh.
Send in the Alabamians: World War Fighters in the Rainbow Division,
Send the Alabamians: World War I Fighters in the Rainbow Division by Nimrod T. Frazer ISBN: 9780817318383
Published by University of Alabama Press on May 13th 2014
Genres: History, Military, World War I, United States, 20th Century, State & Local
Pages: 344
Len's Summary: index, ISBN 978 0 8173 1838 3, 34.95 hb. The story of the 167th Infantry Regiment, Alabama National Guard. It is not only Pen & Sword that can publish regimental histories.
Behind the Gas Mask: The U. S. Chemical Warfare Service in War And Peace
Behind the Gas Mask: The U. S. Chemical Warfare Service in War And Peace by Thomas I. Faith ISBN: 9780252080265
Published by University of Illinois Press on October 10th 2014
Genres: History, Military, Biological & Chemical Warfare, United States, General, Social Science, Media Studies
Pages: 149
Len's Summary: An examination of the U. S. Army’s use of chemical warfare in WWI and the ultimate rejection during the 1920s of its future use.
American Armies and Battlefields in Europe
American Armies and Battlefields In Europe by American Battle Monuments Commission on August 18th 2015
Len's Summary: A combination history, photoalbum, atlas and battlefield guide for the American Expeditionary Force, this classic is now best ordered as part of the 3-CD set, The U.S. Army in World War I, offered by the U.S. Army Center for Military History at their website.
Army Service Corps, 1902-1918
Army Service Corps, 1902-1918 by Michael Young, Richard Holmes ISBN: 0850527309
Published by Leo Cooper on July 1st 2000
Pages: 406
Len's Summary: A history of the worldwide operations of the British Army Service Corps in WWI replete with maps, b&w illustrations, biographies of key officers and tables of Corps organization.
United States Naval Aviation, 1910-1918
United States Naval Aviation, 1910-1918 by Noel C. Shirley ISBN: 9780764311796
on 2000
Pages: 336
Len's Summary: A richly illustrated book contains the statistical product of exhaustive research on the organization, personalities, bases and equipment of early American naval aviation. Noel is a member of The Great War Society and the League of WWI Aviation Historians, as well as a frequent speaker at WFA seminars.
Turbulence in the Pacific: Japanese-U.S. Relations During World War I
Turbulence in the Pacific: Japanese-U.S. Relations During World War I by Noriko Kawamura ISBN: 9780275968533
Published by Greenwood Publishing Group on January 1st 2000
Genres: History, Asia, General, Japan, Military, World War I, United States, 20th Century
Pages: 173
Len's Summary: The author is Assistant Professor of History at Washington State University; she was educated both in Japan and the US. An active and troubled period in bilateral relations marked by American efforts to maintain an “open door” in China in the face of persistent Japanese expansionism. See Camaraderie for a full review. Things went downhill from here. . .
The Lost Battalion
The Lost Battalion by Thomas M. Johnson, Fletcher Pratt, Edward M. Coffman ISBN: 0803276133
Published by Bison Books on May 1st 2000
Genres: History, Military, World War I, United States
Pages: 364
Len's Summary: Reprint of a 1938 classic with a new introduction by the dean of American WWI historians Edward M. "Mac" Coffman. The Meuse-Argonne from a ground-level infantry view. A November 2000 selection of the History Book Club.
About Face: A Daughter Looks Back at a Soldier and the Great War
About Face: A Daughter Looks Back at a Soldier and the Great War by Eleanor Elliot Brownell ISBN: 9780967978406
Published by World War I Press on 2000
Pages: 113
Len's Summary: The story of the campaign of soldier of the Fourth Division, AEF, in France based on his letters home.
Complete Idiot’s Guide to World War
Complete 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.
Until the Last Trumpet Sounds: The Life of General of the Armies John J. Pershing
Until the Last Trumpet Sounds: The Life of General of the Armies John J. Pershing by Gene Smith ISBN: 1630262471
Published by John Wiley & Sons on October 1st 1999
Pages: 384
Len's Summary: The new one-volume biography of General John J. Pershing Until the Last Trumpet Sounds by Gene Smith (John Wiley & Sons) was panned by The New York Times, but got a better review from historian Rod Paschall writing for MHQ. Black Jack’s best biographies are multi-volume — Frank Vandiver’s and Donald Smythe’s come to mind — so this one is a handy, quick reference that captures the fundamentals of Pershing’s life.
Forgotten Victory: The First World War – Myths and Realities
Forgotten Victory: The First World War - Myths and Realities by Gary Sheffield ISBN: 0747271577
Published by Headline on December 31st 2001
Pages: 298
Len's Summary: The is definitely worth reading as a revisionist look at the causes, strategy, leadership and consequences of The Great War in Great Britain and America. Not a survey history, but rather a first class series of essays.
The Doughboys: America and the First World War
The Doughboys: America and the First World War by Gary Mead ISBN: 9781585670611
on 2001
Pages: 493
Len's Summary: Highly recommended new look at the impact of American in WWI and its role in the Allied victory. Mead is a British journalist. Well worth reading even though Mead forgets that it was the Spanish-American War that catapulted the United States onto the world stage. Available form Amazon.com.uk and Barnes and Noble.
Edith and Woodrow: The Wilson White House
Edith and Woodrow: The Wilson White House by Phyllis Lee Levin ISBN: 9780743211581
Published by Scribner on September 25th 2001
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Historical, Presidents & Heads of State, History, United States, 20th Century
Pages: 606
Len's Summary: Ms. Levin, a journalist, sets out to prove that Edith Bolling Galt, Wilson’s second wife, set the agenda for the last, tragic years of his administration.
Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America
Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America by Jennifer D. Keene ISBN: 9780801865923
Published by Johns Hopkins University Press on August 29th 2001
Pages: 294
Len's Summary: A social history of the impact of The Great War on the United States and its people.
Wingless Eagle: U.S. Army Aviation through World War I
Wingless Eagle: U.S. Army Aviation through World War I by Herbert A. Johnson ISBN: 9780807860236
Published by Univ of North Carolina Press on April 3rd 2003
Genres: History, United States, General, Military, Aviation
Pages: 320
Doctrine Under Trial: American Artillery Employment in World War I
Doctrine Under Trial: American Artillery Employment in World War I by Mark E. Grotelueschen ISBN: 9780313311710
Published by Greenwood Press on November 30th 2001
Genres: History, Military, World War I, United States, 20th Century
Pages: 174
Len's Summary: How the conflict between infantrymen and artillerists in the AEF went unresolved…
American Voices of World War I: Primary Source Documents, 1917-1920
American Voices of World War I: Primary Source Documents, 1917-1920 by Martin Marix Evans ISBN: 1579583091
Published by Routledge on February 3rd 2001
Pages: 258
Race, War, and Surveillance: African Americans and the United States
Race, War, and Surveillance: African Americans and the United States by Mark Ellis ISBN: 9780253109323
Published by Indiana University Press on July 26th 2001
Genres: History, United States, General, Social Science, Ethnic Studies, African American Studies, Military, World War I
Pages: 352
Len's Summary: Race relations in America during The Great War…not a pretty sight.
Yanks: The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I
Yanks: The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I by John S. D. Eisenhower ISBN: 9780684863047
Published by Free Press on June 4th 2001
Genres: History, Military, United States
Pages: 353
Len's Summary: Lacks adequate maps, but otherwisea good survey. WFA member Christina Holstein did substantial research for thiswork. We will review it in Stand To!
A Navy Second to None: The History of U.S. Naval Training in World War I
A Navy Second to None: The History of U.S. Naval Training in World War I by Michael D. Besch ISBN: 9780313319099
Published by Greenwood Press on 2002
Genres: History, Military, World War I, United States, Naval
Pages: 230
First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power
First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power by Warren Zimmermann ISBN: 9780374179397
on 2002
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Reference, History, Military, United States, 19th Century
Pages: 562
Len's Summary: The author was a Foreign Service officer, our last Ambassador to Yugoslavia. He passed away in 2003. Zimmermann analyses America’s emergence onto the world stage through the careers of five friends and political allies: Theodore Roosevelt, John Hay, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Elihu Root and Henry Cabot Lodge. All but Mahan (a naval officer) were involved in national politics. the firm basis for the internationally activist administrations of Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and their successors that marked the American Century. Stongly Recommended.
America’s Great War: World War I and the American Experience
America's Great War: World War I and the American Experience by Robert H. Zieger ISBN: 9780847696451
Published by Rowman & Littlefield on 2001
Pages: 275
Len's Summary: A social history of America in the Great War era by a professor of history at the University of Florida.
“Investigate Everything”: Federal Efforts to Ensure Black Loyalty During World War I
"Investigate Everything": Federal Efforts to Ensure Black Loyalty During World War I by Theodore Kornweibel Jr. ISBN: 9780253340092
Published by Indiana University Press on 2002
Genres: History, United States, 20th Century, Social Science, Ethnic Studies, African American Studies
Pages: 323
Len's Summary: By the author of Seeing Red (Indiana 1998) about Federal efforts to curb Black militancy 1919-1925 in the wake of the post-war Red Scare.
The New World Power: American Foreign Policy, 1898-1917
The New World Power: American Foreign Policy, 1898-1917 by Robert E. Hannigan ISBN: 9780812236668
Published by University of Pennsylvania Press on November 27th 2002
Genres: History, United States, 20th Century, Political Science, International Relations, General
Pages: 365
Len's Summary: A survey and analysis of America’s increasing involvement in world affairs through four administrations in two the decades beginning with the Spanish American War and ending with the declaration of war against Imperial Germany in 1917. This is an era often ignored by today’s diplomatic historians. Editor-in-Chief Len Shurtleff will review this monograph for Stand To!
The First Cold War: The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson in U.S. – Soviet Relations
The First Cold War: The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson in U.S. - Soviet Relations by Donald E. Davis, Eugene P. Trani ISBN: 082621388X
Published by University of Missouri on August 26th 2002
Pages: 360
Len's Summary: An important new study of American-Russian relations during the Wilson administration with an introduction by my former boss, Larry Eagleburger. Trani is best known for his study of the Harding administration.
Russian Sideshow: America’s Undeclared War, 1918-1920
Russian Sideshow: America's Undeclared War, 1918-1920 by Robert L. Willett ISBN: 9781574884296
Published by Brassey's on November 30th 2003
Pages: 352
Len's Summary: The author, writing on American armed intervention in Northern Russia and Siberia, is a retired businessman and resident of Florida, is a WFA member and spoke at our February 2001 Citadel seminar.
President’s Quarterly Update—April 2024
Dear Members and Friends,
I’m extremely pleased with the level of WW1HA’s activities, some of which may be unseen by you.
Our Journal, “World War One Illustrated,” is now published three times a year with an average length of 48 pages. Each issue is filled with high-quality articles covering a variety of topics, including the popular “My Kin in the Great War” series.
Our electronic newsletter, “Here and There with the WW1HA” is published monthly, with an assortment of Association events and articles covering WW1 topics.
Sal Compagno’s San Francisco Bay Area Chapter continues to hold monthly meetings via Zoom, while Mark Benbow’s Eastern Chapter is holding quarterly meetings.
As President, I am also hosting a quarterly “Fireside Chat” online. The last one emphasized WW1 poetry. The next one will emphasize WW1-era music.
If you’re already a member, I thank you for your membership and encourage you to take part in these activities. If you’re not a member, I ask you to join and participate in these activities. Participate in the events and consider submitting an article for the journal or newsletter.
Reach out to me with your comments: lavarennes@meuse-argonne.com.
Regards,
Randy Gaulke
