Table of Contents

[Possible Foreword to come]
1. Selected to Command (April-May 1917)
2. The Voyage Overseas (May-June 1917)
3. First Days in France (June 1917)
4. Getting Organized (July-August 1917)
5. Chaumont (September 1917)
6. Into the Lines (October 1917)
7. Bleak Prospects (November 1917)
8. Valley Forge (December 1917)
9. The Robertson Proposal (January 1918)
10. Leonard Wood (February 1918)
11. Peyton C. March (March 1918)
12. The German March Offensive (March 1918)
13. The London Agreement (April 1918)
14. Abbeville (May 1918)
15. The Removal of Leonard Wood (May 1918)
16. Cantigny and Chemin des Dames (May 1918)
17. Versailles and Belleau Wood (June 1918)
18. The 100-Division Program (June-July 1918)
19. Soissons: The Turn of the Tide (July 1918)
20. The Goethals Proposal (July 1918)
21. The American First Army (August 1918)
22. St. Mihiel (September 12-16, 1918)
23. Meuse-Argonne: September 26, 1918
24. Meuse-Argonne: October 4, 1918
25. Meuse-Argonne: October 14, 1918
26. Meuse-Argonne: November 1, 1918
27. Portrait of Pershing (1917-1918)
28. Peace (December 1918-April 1919)
29. The Return Home (May-November 1919)
30. Marking Time (December 1919-June 1920)
31. Pershing for President (1920)
32. Chief of Staff (1921-1924)
33. In Retirement (1924-1930)
34. My Experiences in the World War (1931)
35. Micheline Resco (1917-1948)
36. Awaiting the Bugle's Call (1932-1948)
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

World War I is the focus of this classic biography of General "Black Jack" Pershing

About the Author

Donald Smythe (1927–1988) was Professor of History at John Carroll University in Cleveland and lectured at the Army War College and the National War College.

Reviews

"A model of military biography and a major contribution to our knowledge of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I." Allan R. Millet

"A model of military biography and a major contribution to our knowledge of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I." Allan R. Millet