Friday, August 12, 2016

Five Excellent Articles on the AEF



A lot of magazines make the past holdings available online for free. Here are five top-notch articles on the American Expeditionary Force I've come across recently.

Tragedy at Fismette, France, 1918
From: History Net
By Edward G. Lengel
http://www.historynet.com/tragedy-at-fismette-france-1918.htm

The Doughboys Make Good: American Victories at St. Mihiel and Blanc Mont Ridge (pdf issue)
From: Army History
By Mark E. Grotelueschen
http://www.history.army.mil/armyhistory/AH87(W).pdf

The Battle of the Meuse-Argonne, 1918: Harbinger of American Great Power on the European Continent?
From: Foreign Policy Research Institute
Michael Neiberg
http://www.fpri.org/article/2012/05/the-battle-of-the-meuse-argonne-1918-harbinger-of-american-great-power-on-the-european-continent/

The U.S. Military and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919
From: Public Health Reports
Carol R. Byerly, PhD
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2862337/

“Representative of a Victorious People”: The Doughboy Watch on the Rhine (pdf issue)
From: Army History
By Alexander F. Barnes
http://www.history.army.mil/armyhistory/AH77(W).pdf


Feel free to add your recommendations for similar articles in our comments section. Be sure to include the title and url.

1 comment:

  1. I'm just now getting to this. These look promising, thanks for this post.
    Pete

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