The Khaki Road of Yesterday

The Khaki Road of YesterdayDescription by John B. Kane Paperback An autobiography about a preppy young man, John B. Kane who enlist in the Army with his brother Jim. As an original member of the newly formed organization in the US Army "Graves Registration Service," he would use his skills as draftsman plotting the graves of the American fallen soldiers creating the first American cemetery on foreign soil. He unfolds his experiences in France during WWI, including a short

by Hew Strachan

epitomized by the assassination of Jean Jaurès on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close

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this is a gripping historical narrative and a dramatic reassessment of a key moment in the twentieth-century

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but the birth of its modern Army

Marian Moser Jones illustrates the tension between the organization’s founding principles of humanity and neutrality and the political

these transcripts were declared ‘secret’ and concealed from view for the next 50 years

” and former US president Teddy Roosevelt declared that their accomplishments were “unparalleled

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newspaper accounts and memorabilia

until the capitulation of Austria-Hungary