Pershing's Crusaders

Pershing's CrusadersDescription by Richard S. Faulkner Hardcover The Great War caught a generation of American soldiers at a turning point in the nations history. At the moment of the Republics emergence as a key player on the world stage, these were the first Americans to endure mass machine warfare, and the first to come into close contact with foreign peoples and cultures in large numbers. What was it like, Richard S. Faulkner asks, to be one of these foot soldiers at

In the first years of the twentieth century

the famous boom years of the late 1920s to the more recent past in which the First World War has received new cultural interest

he follows ordinary soldiers’ lives

The book chronicles the emergence of modern Turkey and the carve-up of the rest of the Ottoman Empire as it has never been told before

Her vast knowledge of the region made her indispensable to the Cairo Intelligence Office of the British government during World War I

showing how the choices narrowed and the Middle East began along a road that led to the conflicts and confusion that continue to this day

the legend of the AIF is shrouded in myth and mystery

the authors first introduce the technology

medic Kit Neville

Full of drama and intrigue

given the extraordinary truth of the AIF's history

There he commanded the 23rd Wing