Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America by Cameron McWhirter ISBN: 9781250009067
Published by St. Martin's Press on July 3rd 2012
Genres: History, United States, 20th Century, Social Science, Ethnic Studies, African American Studies
Pages: 368
Len's Summary: The end of WWI witnessed a spate of lynchings sparked by white supremacy augmented by the pseudo-science of eugenics as white fears of economic integration were conflated with fears of communism. This was the greatest period of racial strife ever seen in America, but it also marked the first glimmer of the civil rights movement that erupted four decades later. Also available as a Nook book.
War’s Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America
War’s Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America by Beth Linker ISBN: 9780226482538
Published by University of Chicago Press on June 15th 2011
Genres: History, Military, World War I, United States, Veterans
Pages: 291
Len's Summary: As part of an effort to minimize soldiers’ pension costs (the largest line item in the Federal budget), the US embarked on a massive program of rehabilitation in an effort to return badly wounded men to productive lives. This resulted in the vast expansion of the medical rehabilitative specialties and the creation of Veterans Administration. Also available as a Nook book.
Letters from a Sailor: America at War 1917-1918
Letters from a Sailor: America at War 1917-1918 by Daniel E. Lee ISBN: 9780739166383
Published by Lexington Books on October 13th 2011
Genres: History, Military, World War I, United States, Naval
Pages: 117
Len's Summary: The correspondence between navy enlistee Conrad Ostroot and his Iowa family.
World War I: The American Soldier Experience
World War I: The American Soldier Experience by Jennifer D. Keene ISBN: 9780803234871
Published by University of Nebraska Press on April 1st 2011
Genres: History, Military, World War I, United States
Pages: 217
Len's Summary: Based on the letters and memoirs of men and women who served.
Imagining the Middle East: The Building of an American Foreign Policy, 1918-1967
Imagining the Middle East: The Building of an American Foreign Policy, 1918-1967 by Matthew F. Jacobs ISBN: 9780807834886
Published by Univ of North Carolina Press on September 12th 2011
Genres: History, Middle East, General, United States, 20th Century, Political Science, International Relations
Pages: 318
Len's Summary: Traces the evolution of US perceptions of the Middle East from the breakup of the Ottoman Empire to the 1967 War.
Nothing Less Than War: A New History of America’s Entry into World War I
Nothing Less Than War: A New History of America's Entry into World War I by Justus D. Doenecke ISBN: 9780813130026
Published by University Press of Kentucky on March 8th 2011
Genres: History, United States, 20th Century
Pages: 394
Len's Summary: A short history of American neutrality.
Happy Days!: A Humorous Narrative in Drawings of the Progress of American Arms 1917-1919
Happy Days!: A Humorous Narrative in Drawings of the Progress of American Arms 1917-1919 by Alban B. Butler ISBN: 9781849086295
Published by Osprey Publishing on November 22nd 2011
Genres: History, Military, World War I, United States, Humor, Form, Comic Strips & Cartoons, Topic, Political
Pages: 110
Len's Summary: Originally published on the 10th anniversary of the end of the war these humorous cartoons were drawn by an aide to 1st Division commander Charles Summerall.
Bodies of War: World War I and the Politics of Commemoration in America, 1919-1933
Bodies of War: World War I and the Politics of Commemoration in America, 1919-1933 by Lisa M. Budreau ISBN: 9780814725184
Published by NYU Press on November 1st 2011
Genres: History, Military, World War I, United States, Veterans, 20th Century
Pages: 317
Len's Summary: First published in hardcover in 2009, this book explains how and why the USG took responsibility for the identification, repatriation or reburial and memorialization of war dead. // A serious analysis of the issues surrounding the repatriation of American war dead, the creation of the American Battle Monuments Commission and the Gold Star mother’s pilgrimage. Dr. Budreau is a member of WFA and frequent speaker at our seminars.
St. Miliel 1918: The American Expeditionary Forces Trial by Fire
by David Bonk ISBN: 9781849083911
Published by Osprey Publishing on October 18th 2011
Genres: History, Military, World War I, United States
Pages: 96
In a Strange Land: The American Occupation of Germany 1918-1923
In a Strange Land: The American Occupation of Germany 1918-1923 by Alexander Barnes ISBN: 9780764337611
on July 28th 2011
Genres: History, Military, General, Pictorial, United States, Germany
Pages: 336
Len's Summary: Heavily illustrated popular history of the brief US occupation of the Rhineland as compared to British and other occupiers.
On Dupont Circle: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the Progressives Who Shaped Our World
On Dupont Circle: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the Progressives Who Shaped Our World by James Srodes ISBN: 9781619021655
Published by Counterpoint LLC on 2013
Genres: History, United States, General
Pages: 325
Len's Summary: Meeting informally in 1916 at various houses on Dupont Circle in Washington, DC, a group of young Progressives including the Roosevelts, Walter Lippman, Felix Frankfurter Allen, John Foster and Eleanor Dulles, and Herbert Hoover began to formulate the ideas which led to the New Deal and policies for winning World War II.
When the United States Invaded Russia: Woodrow Wilson and the Siberian Disaster
When the United States Invaded Russia: Woodrow Wilson and the Siberian Disaster by Carl J. Richard ISBN: 9781442219892
Published by Rowman & Littlefield on December 1st 2012
Genres: History, Military, United States, Other, Europe, Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Pages: 195
Len's Summary: In one of America’s earliest counterinsurgency campaigns outside the Western Hemisphere, US troops (along with British, Canadian, Japanese, French and Italian contingents) invaded Siberia in 1918 in part to support White Russian forces against Bolshevik revolutionaries, and in part to rescue the Czech Legion, but most importantly to frustrate suspected Japanese plans for territorial expansion.
The Black Book: Woodrow Wilson’s Secret Plan for Peace
The Black Book: Woodrow Wilson's Secret Plan for Peace by Wesley J. Reisser ISBN: 9780739185391
Published by Lexington Books on 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Political Science, International Relations, Treaties, Peace, Social Science, Human Geography, United States
Pages: 204
Len's Summary: American involvement in negotiating the breakup of European empires with particular reference to redrawing national borders in Central and Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. These frontiers remain a living problem for diplomacy today.
Five Lieutenants: The Heartbreaking Story of Five Harvard Men Who Led America to Victory in World War I
Five Lieutenants: The Heartbreaking Story of Five Harvard Men Who Led America to Victory in World War I by James Carl Nelson ISBN: 9781250018588
Published by Macmillan on November 13th 2012
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Biography & Autobiography, United States
Pages: 384
Len's Summary: The war biographies of five Harvard students who volunteered for army service in 1917 and were killed in action. The author, a WFA member, also wrote The Remains of Company D.
Scraping the Barrel: The Military Use of Sub-Standard Manpower
Scraping the Barrel: The Military Use of Sub-Standard Manpower by Sanders Marble ISBN: 9780823239788
Published by Fordham University Press on August 14th 2012
Genres: History, Military, United States, Other, Technology & Engineering, Military Science, Essays
Pages: 354
Len's Summary: Essays from Dennis Showalter, Steven Short, and Peter Simkins among others.
At Belleau Wood with Rifle and Sketchpad: Memoir of a United States Marine in World War I
At Belleau Wood with Rifle and Sketchpad: Memoir of a United States Marine in World War I by Louis C. Linn, Laura Jane Linn Wright, B.J. Omanson ISBN: 0786449047
Published by McFarland on January 11th 2012
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, Personal Memoirs, History, World War I, United States
Pages: 189
Len's Summary: Memoir of young Marine complete with wood cuts and sketches depicting his life at war. Linn was also a poet whose work has recently been published by the University of South Carolina Press.
Of Little Comfort: War Widows, Fallen Soldiers, and the Remaking of the Nation after the Great War
Of Little Comfort: War Widows, Fallen Soldiers, and the Remaking of the Nation after the Great War by Erika Kuhlman ISBN: 9780814748398
Published by NYU Press on March 19th 2012
Genres: History, United States, 20th Century, Military, Women's Studies
Pages: 235
Len's Summary: Scholarly social history; picking up the pieces in Germany and America after the war; the internationalization of war memorials and memory; changing social views of widows and widowhood.
Eyewitnesses to the Great War: American Writers, Reporters, Volunteers and Soldiers in France, 1914-1918
Eyewitnesses to the Great War: American Writers, Reporters, Volunteers and Soldiers in France, 1914-1918 by Ed Klekowski, Libby Klekowski ISBN: 0786463481
Published by McFarland & Company on July 30th 2012
Genres: History, Military, World War I, World War II, United States, 20th Century, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 253
Len's Summary: Novelist Edith Wharton, Mrs. W K. Vanderbilt and other American expatriate socialites, adventurers as well as diplomats, soldiers, journalists, and relief workers among others write of their experiences on both sides of the lines. A different slant on the war by two new members of WWHA.
The Will to Believe: Woodrow Wilson, World War I, and America’s Strategy for Peace and Security
The Will to Believe: Woodrow Wilson, World War I, and America's Strategy for Peace and Security by Ross A. Kennedy ISBN: 9780873389716
Published by Kent State University Press on March 13th 2009
Genres: History, Military, World War I, United States, General, 20th Century, Political Science, International Relations
Pages: 291
Len's Summary: A nuanced look at the debate surrounding Wilson’s national security policy and the shadow this casts across contemporary foreign policy formulation. // The author, an Assistant Professor of History at Illinois State University, takes a new, sophisticated look at how three competing groups — pacifists, liberal internationalists and Atlanticists — addressed national security issues during the Wilson Administration. // A fresh analysis of Wilson’s foreign policy focusing on three competing groups: pacifists, liberal internationalists, and Atlanticists.
American Expeditionary Force: France 1917-1918
American Expeditionary Force: France 1917-1918 by Jack Holroyd ISBN: 9781848848771
Published by Casemate Publishers on October 24th 2012
Genres: History, Military, World War I, United States
Pages: 144
Len's Summary: Eight chapters dealing with high points of the war from the American perspective. Heavily illustrated.
World War I and the Origins of U.S. Military Intelligence
World War I and the Origins of U.S. Military Intelligence by James L. Gilbert ISBN: 9781442249189
Published by Rowman & Littlefield on March 16th 2015
Genres: History, Military, World War I, United States
Pages: 272
Len's Summary: The birth of modern military intelligence and counter intelligence including code breaking.
The School of Hard Knocks: Combat Leadership in the American Expeditionary Forces
The School of Hard Knocks: Combat Leadership in the American Expeditionary Forces by Richard S. Faulkner ISBN: 1603442979
Published by Texas A&M University Press on March 29th 2012
Pages: 416
Len's Summary: Shortfalls in officer training contributed to a high death toll in the AEF’s Meuse-Argonne Campaign.
American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic by Nancy K. Bristow ISBN: 9780199811342
Published by Oxford University Press on April 30th 2012
Genres: History, United States, State & Local, General, Modern, 20th Century, South, Medical, Public Health
Pages: 280
Len's Summary: The global flu pandemic of 1918-1920 sickened mainly young adults killed some 50 million people, half a million in America alone, shaking new-found confidence in medicine and having a profound effect on society.
Militarism in a Global Age: Naval Ambitions in Germany and the United States before World War I
Militarism in a Global Age: Naval Ambitions in Germany and the United States before World War I by Dirk Bönker ISBN: 9780801450402
Published by Cornell University Press on March 6th 2012
Genres: History, Military, Naval, World War I, United States, 20th Century
Pages: 421
Len's Summary: Argues that a common militarism existed in Germany and America where naval elites shared similar outlooks and goals.
Scarlet Fields: The Combat Memoir of a World War I Medal of Honor Hero
Scarlet Fields: The Combat Memoir of a World War I Medal of Honor Hero by John Lewis Barkley ISBN: 9780700620197
Published by University Press of Kansas on August 15th 2014
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, History, World War I, United States, 20th Century, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 268
Len's Summary: First published in 1930 as No Hard Feelings by a veteran infantryman of the Fourth Regiment, Third Division.
Hell’s Observer: The Epic World War 1 Journal of Private William J. Graham, American Expeditionary Forces
Hell's Observer: The Epic World War 1 Journal of Private William J. Graham, American Expeditionary Forces by William J. Graham, C. Stephen Badgley, Bruce A. Jarvis ISBN: 0985440317
Published by Badgley Publishing Company on April 1st 2012
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Personal Memoirs, United States
Pages: 292
Len's Summary: Memoir of a Philadelphia mounted policemen who fought with the 103rd Military Police Battalion, 28th Division.
The World War I Diary of José de la Luz Sáenz
The World War I Diary of José de la Luz Sáenz by J. Luz Sáenz, Emilio Zamora, Ben Maya ISBN: 1623491142
Published by Texas A&M University Press on February 18th 2014
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, History, World War I, United States, 20th Century, State & Local, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 528
Len's Summary: Translation of a Texas soldier’s experiences in France and Germany first published in Spanish in 1933.
Never Call Retreat: Theodore Roosevelt and the Great War
Never Call Retreat: Theodore Roosevelt and the Great War by J. Lee Thompson ISBN: 9781137306531
Published by Palgrave Macmillan on January 15th 2014
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Presidents & Heads of State, History, Military, World War I, History, United States, State & Local, General, 20th Century, Modern, South
Pages: 376
Len's Summary: US domestic politics and the Great War; The Old Bull Moose takes on a circumspect Woodrow Wilson and demands intervention on the side of The Entente.
My Life Before the World War, 1860-1917 – A Memoir
My Life Before the World War, 1860-1917 – A Memoir by John J. Pershing, John T. Greenwood ISBN: 9780813141978
Published by University Press of Kentucky on June 20th 2013
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, History, Military, United States
Pages: 727
Len's Summary: Pershing’s previously unpublished memoir traces his life from boyhood in Kansas, through West Point, the final Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection and his role as an observer in the Russo-Japanese War, as well as the frustrating pursuit of Pancho Villa across northern Mexico.
The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and their Forgotten World War
The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and their Forgotten World War by Richard Rubin ISBN: 9780544290488
Published by Mariner Books on May 6th 2014
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, History, World War I, United States, Veterans
Pages: 518
Len's Summary: Beginning ten years ago, the author set out to interview surviving WWI veterans and succeeded in finding several dozen men and women aged 101 to 113. These included an infantryman, an artillerist, an engineer a balloonist, sailors, marines, a woman War Department worker, yoemanettes, a veteran of the Siberian expedition, and a Canadian veteran, as well as the last surviving Doughboy Frank Buckles. These are their stories.
Making the World Safe for Workers: Labor, the Left, and Wilsonian Internationalism
Making the World Safe for Workers: Labor, the Left, and Wilsonian Internationalism by Elizabeth McKillen ISBN: 9780252037870
Published by University of Illinois Press on October 8th 2013
Genres: History, United States, 20th Century, Political Science, Labor & Industrial Relations
Pages: 299
Len's Summary: Focuses on Wilson’s approach to labor, WWI, and peacemaking.
Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation’s Humanitarian Awakening
Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation’s Humanitarian Awakening by Julia Irwin ISBN: 9780199766406
Published by OUP USA on May 23rd 2013
Genres: History, United States, 20th Century, Modern, South, Political Science, International Relations, General, NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations)
Pages: 273
Len's Summary: The rise of the American Red Cross from Julia Ward Howe and the Civil War through WWI when it became our official private voluntary aid agency.
Abandoning American Neutrality: Woodrow Wilson and the Beginning of the Great War, August 1914 – December 1915
Abandoning American Neutrality: Woodrow Wilson and the Beginning of the Great War, August 1914 – December 1915 by M. Ryan Floyd ISBN: 9781137334114
Published by Palgrave Macmillan on September 5th 2013
Genres: History, Europe, General, Military, World War I, United States, 20th Century, Political Science
Pages: 262
Len's Summary: Traces Wilson’s ultimately unsuccessful efforts to keep America out of war in the face of political, economic and financial imperatives.
Josephus Daniels: His Life and Times
Josephus Daniels: His Life and Times by Lee Allan Craig ISBN: 9781469606958
Published by UNC Press Books on May 1st 2013
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Political, History, United States, 20th Century, State & Local
Pages: 474
Len's Summary: This influential southern progressive (except in racial affairs), newspaper publisher and Democratic party politician is best remembered as being Woodrow Wilson’s war-time Secretary of the Navy and the man who banished demon rum from Navy wardrooms.
Devil Dogs Chronicle: Voices of the Fourth Marine Brigade
Devil Dogs Chronicle: Voices of the Fourth Marine Brigade by George B. Clark ISBN: 9780700618965
Published by University Press of Kansas on March 2nd 2013
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, History, World War I, United States
Pages: 411
Len's Summary: The history of the ten thousand men, part of the Second Division AEF, who made up the only large Marine unit to fight in World War One. The author is a Marine veteran with several other books under his belt.
Wilson
Wilson by A. Scott Berg ISBN: 9780425270066
Published by Penguin Group USA on September 2nd 2014
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Presidents & Heads of State, History, United States, 20th Century
Pages: 818
Len's Summary: A new biography of our 28th president by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian.
They Called Them Soldier Boys: A Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I
They Called Them Soldier Boys: A Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I by Gregory W. Ball ISBN: 9781574415001
Published by University of North Texas Press on March 5th 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I, United States, State & Local
Pages: 240
Len's Summary: A history of the Texas National Guard’s 7th Infantry Regiment from its federalization in 1917, training, overseas action and repatriation at war’s end.
The American Army and the First World War
The American Army and the First World War by David Woodward ISBN: 9781107648869
Published by Cambridge University Press on July 10th 2014
Pages: 481
Len's Summary: Examines the problems encountered when an unprepared America went to war in 1917. The author is a retired distinguished professor of history at the University of West Virginia. // Correction: Woodward taught at Marshall, not the university of Marshall.
Browning .30 Caliber Machine Guns
Browning .30 Caliber Machine Guns by Gordon L. Rottman ISBN: 9781780969213
Published by Osprey Publishing on February 20th 2014
Genres: Technology & Engineering, Military Science, History, Military, United States, World War II, General, Weapons, Antiques & Collectibles
Pages: 80
Len's Summary: The water-cooled Browning .30 caliber came into service in 1917 and remained in service for 50 years.
Alvin York: New Biography of the Hero of the Argonne
Alvin York: New Biography of the Hero of the Argonne by Douglas V. Mastriano ISBN: 9780813145198
Published by University Press of Kentucky on March 5th 2014
Genres: Military, History, World War I, United States, 20th Century
Pages: 323
Len's Summary: Life of an iconic American hero. The author is an Army Lt. Colonel and leader of one of two fiercely competive expeditions surveying York‘s battle ground near the village of Châtel Chéhéry. // The author is one of a dueling duo of researchers vying to establish the location of Alvin York’s exploits outside the village of Chatel-Chéhéry. A History Book Club selection.
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
