Five Lieutenants

Five LieutenantsDescription by James Carl Nelson Paperback James Carl Nelson tells the dramatic true story of five brilliant young soldiers from Harvard, a thrilling tale of combat and heroism in the First World War. Five Lieutenants tells the story of five young Harvard men who took up the call to arms in the spring of 1917 and met differing fates in the maelstrom of battle on the Western Front in 1918. Delving deep into the motivations, horrific experiences, and

The answer can be found in Pershing’s Crusaders

" The voices of these British soldiers offer a forgotten perspective of the Great War

it was a tragic folly destined to fail from the start

The Land Army was a civilian enterprise organized and financed by women

Andrew Robertshaw and David Kenyon introduce the reader to the techniques that are employed and record

the Allies broke through

Attrition emerged as the only means of defeating industrialized belligerents that were mobilizing all their resources for war

boots-on-the-ground account that brilliantly evokes the confusion of war

deny the port to enemy shipping

lived together in communal camps and did what was considered “men’s work”: plowing fields

and a host of period documents and reports generated by various staff agencies of the American Expeditionary Forces

testimonies and poems