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America’s Great War: World War I and the American Experience

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America’s Great War: World War I and the American ExperienceAmerica'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.

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The First World War: A Concise Global History

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The First World War: A Concise Global HistoryThe First World War: A Concise Global History by William Kelleher Storey
ISBN: 9780742541467
on September 16th 2010
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 193

Len's Summary: A narrative history emphasizing the role of the environment and of new and old technologies. // A new history concentrating on environmental and technical aspects of the conflict and how the war changed peoples’ perceptions of their surroundings and relations to machinery.

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Loyalty in a Time of Trial: The African-American Experience During World War I

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Loyalty in a Time of Trial: The African-American Experience During World War ILoyalty in a Time of Trial: The African-American Experience During World War I by Nina Mjagkij
ISBN: 9780742570436
Published by Rowman & Littlefield on April 16th 2011
Genres: History, Military, World War I, United States, 20th Century, Social Science, Ethnic Studies, African American Studies
Pages: 225

Len's Summary: Nearly 370,000 Black soldiers served in a segregated military while another 400,000 migrated north to work in defense industries. This service forced America to confront institutionalized segregation and racism.

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We Are Coming, Unafraid: The Jewish Legions and the Promised Land in the First World War

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We Are Coming, Unafraid: The Jewish Legions and the Promised Land in the First World WarWe Are Coming, Unafraid: The Jewish Legions and the Promised Land in the First World War by Michael Keren, Shlomit Keren
ISBN: 9780742552746
Published by Rowman & Littlefield on August 1st 2010
Genres: History, Jewish, Military, World War I, Religion, Judaism
Pages: 191

Len's Summary: The story of the three British Jewish Legions recruited from Canada, the US and England based on volunteer letters and diaries.

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When the United States Invaded Russia: Woodrow Wilson and the Siberian Disaster

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When the United States Invaded Russia: Woodrow Wilson and the Siberian DisasterWhen 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.

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World War I and the Origins of U.S. Military Intelligence

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World War I and the Origins of U.S. Military IntelligenceWorld 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.

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The Canadian Experience of the Great War: A Guide to Memoirs

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The Canadian Experience of the Great War: A Guide to MemoirsThe Canadian Experience of the Great War: A Guide to Memoirs by Brian Douglas Tennyson
ISBN: 9780810886797
Published by Rowman & Littlefield on May 1st 2013
Genres: History, Canada, Post-Confederation (1867-), Military, World War I, Veterans, Reference, Essays, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 594

Len's Summary: Catalogs the writings of ordinary Canadians among the 600 thousand men and women who served.

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