Remembering World War I in America Biography by Kate Messner

by Kate Messner

Revealed is a rare glimpse into the thoughts and experiences of a broad cross-section of men from the senior leadership down to the platoon level

they surged through enemy lines--alone

the Chevrolet brothers

whose parents had fled czarist anti-Semitic persecution and who was killed in action at the age of twenty-eight before his fame as a poet and a painter was recognized

Remembering World War I in America Biography by Kate MessnerDescription By Kimberly J Lamay Licursi Paperback Poised to become a significant player in the new world order, the United States truly came of age during and after World War I. Yet many Americans think of the Great War simply as a precursor to World War II. Americans, including veterans, hastened to put experiences and memories of the war years behind them, reflecting a general apathy about the war that had developed during the 1920s and 1930s and