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C. A. Brannen Series
The Yankee Division in the First World War: In the Highest Tradition (Volume 10)
Historians have been unkind to the 26th Division of the U.S. Army during World War I. Despite playing a significant role in all the major engagements of the American Expeditionary Force, the “Yankee Division,” as it was commonly known, and its beloved commanding officer, Maj. Gen. Clarence Edwards, were often at odds with Gen. John J. Pershing. Subsequently, the Yankee Division became the A.E.F.’s “whipping boy,” a reputation that has largely continued to the present day.
In The Yankee Division in the First World War, author Michael E. Shay mines a voluminous body of first-person accounts to set forth an accurate record of the Yankee Division in France—a record that is, as he reports, “better than most.” Shay sheds new light on the ongoing conflict in leadership and notes that two of the division’s regiments received the coveted Croix de Guerre, the first ever awarded to an American unit.
This first-rate study should find a welcome place on military history bookshelves, both for scholars and students of the Great War and for interested general readers.
In The Yankee Division in the First World War, author Michael E. Shay mines a voluminous body of first-person accounts to set forth an accurate record of the Yankee Division in France—a record that is, as he reports, “better than most.” Shay sheds new light on the ongoing conflict in leadership and notes that two of the division’s regiments received the coveted Croix de Guerre, the first ever awarded to an American unit.
This first-rate study should find a welcome place on military history bookshelves, both for scholars and students of the Great War and for interested general readers.
- GenresWorld War I
312 pages, Hardcover
First published June 20, 2008
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March 27, 2016During WWI; my grandfather and his entire graduating class of Lowell Textile enlisted in the Yankee Division and shipped over to France. I am hoping to understand what he may of went through.
December 29, 2022
An excellent account of the village based units representing New England in WW1 France. This book does a lot of justice to the skewed history that has followed the division, and tries to set the record straight.
Littered with first and second hand account from letters home and interviews, this book gives a pretty realistic view of life in France for the Yankee division as well as many other national guard units that have been unfairly labeled.
The “village based unit” camaraderie is the standard that modern small unit forces are built on.
Littered with first and second hand account from letters home and interviews, this book gives a pretty realistic view of life in France for the Yankee division as well as many other national guard units that have been unfairly labeled.
The “village based unit” camaraderie is the standard that modern small unit forces are built on.
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