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This war wasn't such a black-and-white affair between good and evil. Rather it was two imperialist powers slugging it out for supremacy. America only joined the war because President Woodrow Wilson ultimately believed it was the right thing to do, that Britain was more sinned against than sinning. But when Wilson did mobilise he did so in style, sending 2 million troops (the "Doughboys" of the title) to the Western Front. British histories have tended to underplay the American contribution, pointing out that their troops didn't see as much of the action in 1917-1918, nor did they suffer such heavy casualties. Mead sets out to refute this and provides an impressive body of evidence, including some powerful first-person accounts from veterans, to suggest that the war could not have been won without the Americans. The truth, as ever, lies somewhere in the middle. The British, French and Germans were exhausted by three years of attritional stalemate, and the Americans did provide the catalyst for the final push to victory. But German defeat was also brought about by their own tactical errors during their spring offensive of 1918, as much as by the Allied firepower. So Mead's case is not totally proved. But what he has achieved in this well written and brilliantly researched book is to redress the balance and open the windows on a slice of history that has long been veiled. --John Crace
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