Thunder and Flames: Americans in the Crucible of Combat, 1917-1918 Prints was ordered by the leader

was ordered by the leader of America's forces in Europe

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Jenkins reveals how the widespread belief in angels and apparitions

bringing unheard-of changes in the social and industrial order

killed in the First World War a week before the Armistice and immediately forgotten

Thunder and Flames: Americans in the Crucible of Combat, 1917-1918 Prints was ordered by the leaderDescription by Edward G. Lengel Paperback November 1917. The American troops were poorly trained, deficient in military equipment and doctrine, not remotely ready for armed conflict on a large scaleand theyd arrived on the Western front to help the French push back the Germans. The story of what happened nextthe American Expeditionary Forces trial by fire on the brutal battlefields of Franceis told in full for the first time in Thunder and Flames.