My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTNG]

Carroll, Andrew

Published by Penguin Press, New York, 2017

About this Item

Near fine unread condition black boards, black spine, and gold spine lettering contained in a near fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Andrew Carroll; Author Dedication; American Expeditionary Forces Chain of Command and Organization; Foreword; Postscript; Acknowledgments; Notes on Sources; Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and maps. A small indent at the upper rear board edge, penetrating somewhat onto tiny repaired closed tear at rear upper jacket edge; the volume is otherwise in as new unread condition (see photographs). Remainder dot at lower page edge. "From the New York Times bestselling author of War Letters and Behind the Lines, Andrew Carroll's My Fellow Soldiers draws on a rich trove of both little known and newly uncovered letters and diaries to create a marvelously vivid and moving account of the American experience in World War I, with General John Pershing featured prominently in the foreground. Andrew Carroll's intimate portrait of General Pershing, who led all of the American troops in Europe during World War I, is a revelation. Given a military force that, on the eve of its entry into the war, was downright primitive compared with the European combatants, the general had to surmount enormous obstacles to build an army and ultimately command millions of U.S. soldiers. But Pershing himself - often perceived as a harsh, humorless, and wooden leader - concealed inner agony from those around him: almost two years before the United States entered the war, Pershing suffered a personal tragedy so catastrophic that he almost went insane with grief and remained haunted by the loss for the rest of his life, as private and previously unpublished letters he wrote to family members now reveal. Before leaving for Europe, Pershing also had a passionate romance with George Patton's sister, Anne. But once he was in France, Pershing fell madly in love with a young painter named Micheline Resco, whom he later married in secret. Woven thoughout Pershing's story are the experiences of a remarkable group of American men and women, both the famous and the unheralded, including Harry Truman, Douglas MacArthur, William "Wild Bill" Donovan, Teddy Roosevelt, and his youngest son, Quentin. The chorus of these voices, which begins with the first Americans who enlisted in the French Foreign Legion as well as those who flew with the Lafayette Escadrille, makes the high stakes of this epic American saga piercingly real, demonstration the war's profound impact on the individuals who served - both during the conflict and in the years after - with extraordinary humanity and emotional force." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTNG]
• Publisher: Penguin Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Quinn, Marysarah (book design); Ward, Jeffrey L. (preliminary page maps); Haggar, Darren (jacket design); Carroll, Chris (author photograph)
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine