Thunder and Flames: Americans in the Crucible of Combat, 1917-1918

Thunder and Flames: Americans in the Crucible of Combat, 1917-1918Description by Edward G. Lengel Paperback November 1917. The American troops were poorly trained, deficient in military equipment and doctrine, not remotely ready for armed conflict on a large scaleand theyd arrived on the Western front to help the French push back the Germans. The story of what happened nextthe American Expeditionary Forces trial by fire on the brutal battlefields of Franceis told in full for the first time in Thunder and Flames.

The poems are accompanied by a brief and accessible introduction and short biographical profiles that set them in context for readers new to the works

At one point

Beginning his wartime career on the Western Front in August 1916

by William and Doris Martin

the Battle of the Somme has exemplified the horrors and futility of trench warfare

Their friendship and collaboration developed through the peace of the 1920s and 1930s

the air all round is thick with little grey sand-flies which bite disgustingly

The Panthéon de la Guerre was a cyclorama the size of a football field

these primary sources afford an immediacy rarely found in historical records

Mountaineer

On conclusion of the inquiry

by Dusan Babac