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S'està carregant… Borrowed Soldiers: Americans Under British Command, 1918de Mitchell A. Yockelson
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. If one has read about the American involvement in World War I to even a superficial extent, one is aware of the long-running argument the United States had with its allies over the wisdom of creating an American field army from scratch; as opposed to filling out already existing British & French units with American replacements due to the press of time. In this book Mitch (for the record he is a colleague of mine) examines the experimental control if you will, as he provides a narrative of the U.S. II Corps and its constituent divisions under the control of the British; a group of men whose combat service was overshadowed by the events of the Meuse-Argonne campaign. The implications are that, if handled correctly, more American troops under the operational control of the Entente might not have been a bad idea. The unanswerable questions being whether the failure to establish an American field army would have blunted Washington's influence on the making of the peace and what this would have meant for the long-term development of the American armed forces. Considering how much Wilson threw away to get the League of Nations perhaps the lack of an independent American field command would not have been that important matter. However, it's also hard to escape the suspicion that the most relevant long-term result of the A.E.F. was to provide a cadre of staff officers who had a real understanding of operational warfare. The relevance of this, of course, is how inevitable you believe World War II to be. ( ) Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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The combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps successfully pierced the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days Campaign of World War I, an offensive that hastened the war's end. Yet despite the importance of this effort, the training and operation of II Corps has received scant attention from historians. Mitchell A. Yockelson delivers a comprehensive study of the first time American and British soldiers fought together as a coalition force--more than twenty years before D-Day. He follows the two divisions that constituted II Corps, the 27th and 30th, from the training camps of South Carolina to the bloody battlefields of Europe. Despite cultural differences, General Pershing's misgivings, and the contrast between American eagerness and British exhaustion, the untested Yanks benefited from the experience of battle-toughened Tommies. Their combined forces contributed much to the Allied victory. Yockelson plumbs new archival sources, including letters and diaries of American, Australian, and British soldiers to examine how two forces of differing organization and attitude merged command relationships and operations. Emphasizing tactical cooperation and training, he details II Corps' performance in Flanders during the Ypres-Lys offensive, the assault on the Hindenburg Line, and the decisive battle of the Selle. Featuring thirty-nine evocative photographs and nine maps, this account shows how the British and American military relationship evolved both strategically and politically. A case study of coalition warfare, Borrowed Soldiers adds significantly to our understanding of the Great War. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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