In a Strange Land: The American Occupation of Germany 1918-1923

In a Strange Land: The American Occupation of Germany 1918-1923Description by Alexander Barnes Hardcover Americas involvement in WWI marked its first major entry into European politics. The final cost of that involvement required the U. S. to supply a force to occupy part of the German Rhineland after the war. The force provided was first known as Third Army and then later as the American Forces in Germany (AFG). It consisted of the best divisions in the American Army. With a starting strength of a quarter

Martin joined the Royal Army Medical Corps

The story begins with Lieutenant Allen and his men marching inland from the French coast and ends with their participation in the disastrous battle for the village of Fismette

muddy trenches

the Russian Legion of Honor

or will it become another casualty of war

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by Pat Shipman

and that others became unexpectedly important

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She shows that though the pandemic caused massive disruption in the most basic patterns of American life

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Maugham himself wanders in and out of the story