Memoirs of World War I : "From Start to Finish of Our Greatest War."
William Mitchell (Author)
"In this first complete version of a serial originally run in Liberty in 1928, General ""Billy"" Mitchell tells his own story of the first World War. Sent to Spain on a military mission in 1916, Mitchell was ordered to join Allied forces in France immediately upon America's entry into the War. Thus he became the first U.S. officer on active duty at the front. The journal he kept was later expanded during leisure time forced on him by his famous court martial. And because the transition was not done in a consciously literary style, much of the brutal impact and immediacy of war stays put. Trench warfare, technical observations, the organization of America's famed ""hat-in-the-ring"" fighter squadron count for much of the contents. And in the manner which was later to annoy so many superiors, Mitchell already begins pounding home the lessons of a new kind of war brought by bomber, tank and submarine. Although Mitchell's comments on the many famous generals around him may hardly be objective, they do shed further light on the personalities which shaped the first of the global conflicts."--Kirkus Reviews
autobiographies (literary works)
312 pages illustrations 24 cm
1347467
Before Pershing in Europe
War declared by U.S. (April 6, 1917)
The French army launches its great attack
General situation at the front
I take part in a French infantry attack
The French air force
Viewing the great battle from the air
Terrific fighting continues
A visit with Petain
The French artillery in action
Military instruction of troops near the line
The French attack Moronvillers
War politics
I visit the British army
To Paris again
We hear that Pershing will command
Pershing arrives in France
First American troops in Paris
Organizing the American army
American headquarters in Chaumont
Our air force disorganized
The hard winter
The Yanks are coming
The Germans destroy the fifth British army
First American air forces enter the combat
Heavy casualties
Last grand attack of the German army
The battle of Chateau-Thierry
The Americans attack at Soissons
The great attack of St. Mihiel
America's greatest battle begins
Over the Argonne
The great war is over
We move into Germany