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From back cover: "African Americans have had a long tradition of serving in the military forces of the United States. None served more proudly and with more dedication than the members of the 9th and 10th Cavalries. Called "Buffalo Soldiers" by Native Americans, the men of these two unites helped shape the American frontier from 1867 to the turn of the century." "...also left a legacy ... World War I, World War II, and the Korean War..."Very Good condition. Previous owner's name in ink inside front cover, otherwise clean and tight. Slight soft bend at top corner. Slight bottom corner wear at bottom corner. Also includes newspaper clippings (both loose and paperclipped). 104 pages including Index.

From inside dust jacket:
THE FIRST WORLD WAR created the modern world. A conflict of unprecendented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of the Victorian era, unleashing such demons of the twentieth century as mechanized warfare and mass death. It also helped to usher in the ideas that have shaped our times--modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, radical thoughts about economics and society--and in so doing shattered the faith in rationalism and liberalism that had prevailed in Europe since the Enlightenment. With The First World War, John Keegan, one of our most eminent military historians, fulfills a lifelong ambition to write the definitive account of the Great War for our generation.
Probing the mystery of how a civilization at the height of its achievement could have propelled itself into such a ruinous conflict, Keegan takes us behind the scenes of the negotiations among Europe's crowned heads (all of them related to one another by blood) and… Read More

From the back cover:
In the winter of 1918, at the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupoted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision between modern science and epidemic disease. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, The Great Influenza weaves together multiple narratives, with characters ranging from William Welch, founder of the Johns Hopkins Medical School, to John D. Rockefeller and Woodrow Wilson. Ultimately a tale of triumph amid tragedy, this crisis provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon.
Very Good condition. Minimal edge wear. Very slight corner wear. Black & white photo section in… Read More

From the back DJ cover: "In its scale and human cost, the Great War dwarfed any conflict before 1914. It was a clash of mighty empires, old enmities and new alliances sucking millions into battle across continents. The dawning of a new technological age ensured the price would be enormous, for victor and vanquished alike. ...this global confrontation sowed the seeds for the rise of Adolf Hitler, the 1939-45 conflict and the Cold War; a defining moment in world history that still incites impassioned debate and divides opinion."

Book - Fine condition. Cover image same as DJ. No obvious signs of wear. Clean and tight.
Dust Jacket - Very Good+ condition. Very light bumping on front cover, but a larger couple on back. Very minimal edge/corner wear.
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96 pages.

From back cover: "The state of Missouri played a unique role in World War I - as the birthplace of Gen. John J. Pershing, the commanding officer of the American Expeditionary Forces, and Maj. Gen. Enoch Crowder, the primary author of the military draft - and it is an impressive legacy featuring a colorful cast of characters, events, and communities." Missouri had two flying aces, provided mules, and 156,000 of its citizens served in the military. This is a book of images and explanations. New book. No damage or wear. Clean and tight. I will note though that if you look closely, the back cover looks like there was some bumping, but I believe that it was printed that way. Please see photos.127 pages including Bibliography.

From inside dust jacket:
For many Americans the First World War is the forgotten war: a war that seems to have fallen into an historical void between the Civil War and World War II. This is surprising given its profound significance to the United States. More than four million Americans were mobilized in 1917-18, of whom more than 100,000 were killed--double the number who died in Vietnam. This was the first, bloody step on the road to globalism which would characterize our foreign policy for the rest of the twentieth century. Even American literature was transformed by the impact of the war on writers like Hemingway and Fitzgerald.
Internationally, more than any other event, the First World War made the twentieth century what it was: It topped the four great empires of the Old World and left a fifth--the British--mortgaged to the hilt. More than nine million men lost their lives, yet none of its stated objectives were met. Rather, it spawned seven decades of Communist rule in Russia, the rise of… Read More

From the back cover: "The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters - Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson - and dramatic events. In this riveting biography...not only captures the man...but also the turbulent times in which he rose, boldly, to meet unprecedented challenges. The last president to serve as a living link between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Truman's story spans the raw world of the Missouri frontier, World War I, the powerful Pendergast machine of Kansas City, the legendary Whistle-Stop Campaign of 1948, and the decisions to drop the atomic bomb, confront Stalin at Potsdam, send troops to Korea, and fire General MacArthur....McCullough tells the deeply moving story of the seemingly ordinary "man from Missouri" who was perhaps the most courageous president in our history."Very Good condition. Paperback with three sections of black and… Read More