Pershing's Lieutenants details the history of the key leaders working for and with the American Expeditionary Forces Commander-in-Chief General John J. Pershing, several of whom went on to become important figures in World War II.
Dedication Contributors Foreword Maps List of Illustrations Introduction: The War to End All War Part One – The Future Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Army 1: Major General John L. Hines 2: Major General Charles P. Summerall 3: Brigadier General Douglas MacArthur 4: Brigadier General Malin Craig 5: Colonel George C. Marshall Part Two – The Future Commandants of the U.S. Marine Corps 6: Major General John A. Lejeune 7: Brigadier General Wendell C. Neville Part Three – The Senior Staff Officers 8: Major General James G. Harbord 9: Brigadier General Fox Conner 10: Brigadier General Hugh A. Drum 11: Brigadier General Charles G. Dawes Part Four – The Army Commanders 12: Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett 13: Lieutenant General Robert L. Bullard 14: Major General Joseph T. Dickman Part Five – The Corps and Division Commanders 15: Major General George H. Cameron 16: Major General Clarence R. Edwards 17: Major General Robert Alexander Part Six – The Specialist Officers 18: Brigadier General William “Billy” Mitchell 19: Colonel George S. Patton, Jr. Part Seven – The Regimental Officers 20: Colonel William J. Donovan 21: Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. 22: Major Harry S. Truman Appendix: U.S. Army Professional Military Education in the Early 20th Century Endnotes Select Bibliography Index
David T. Zabecki (Maj. Gen. Ret) is the author, editor, or translator of seventeen military history books. His encyclopaedia, Germany at War: 400 Years of Military History, won a Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award in 2016. He is editor emeritus of Vietnam Magazine. He holds a PhD in Military History from Britain’s Royal Military College of Science, Cranfield University, where his supervisor was the late Professor Richard Holmes. In 2012 he was the Shifrin Distinguished Professor of Military History at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis. He is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the University of Birmingham’s War Studies Programme. Douglas V. Mastriano (Colonel, Retired) is the author of two books, and senior editor and primary contributor to two published strategic studies. His book, Alvin York: A New Biography of the Hero of the Argonne won four awards; William E. Colby Award, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award, U.S. Army War College Madigan Award and the Carder Family Book Prize. He was a Professor of the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Mastriano has a PhD in Military History from the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada.
Even after more than a century of analysis, it is surprising how
many gaps there are in our understanding of US land forces on the
Western Front, so this sparkling collection of essays is especially
welcome. A distinguished team of contributors deliver scholarship
and controversy in a highly accessible form. Pershing's Lieutenants
goes straight onto any list of key books on American military
history in the Great War.
*Professor Gary Sheffield, co-director of the First World War
Research Group*
The essays in this excellent collection, written by some of the
brightest stars in the military history galaxy, shed a new and
exciting light on one of the least understood armies of the First
World War. It is not just historians who will find them useful,
though: today's soldiers, sailors and airmen, too, will learn much
from the insights on leadership they offer.
*Dr Jonathan Boff, author of Haig's Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht
and Germany's War on the Western Front*
This is a superb collection of essays by nineteen eminent scholars
covering twenty-two American “lieutenants” ranging from Lieutenant
General Hunter Liggett to Major Harry S. Truman. From honing
technical skills to alliance building, the “lieutenants” struggled
to master a deadly battlefield. The writing is crisp, the analysis
critical, and the tone compassionate. The book is a welcome
complement to Douglas Southall Freeman’s Lee’s Lieutenants, Steven
Woodworth’s Grant’s Lieutenants, and Russell Weigley’s Eisenhower’s
Lieutenants.
*Holger H. Herwig, Professor Emeritus, University of Calgary*
Behind every great captain of war stand typically over-looked but
essential lieutenants, who enable the planning and conduct of
operations made famous by their superior commander. This new
volume, expertly edited by David T. Zabecki and Douglas V.
Mastriano, brings Pershing’s illustrious and largely-forgotten
subordinates out of the shadows into the limelight they
deserve.
*Major General Mungo Melvin CB OBE, British Army (Retired)*
April 1917 saw the U.S. military largely unprepared for
participation in World War I. In this important study edited by
Douglas V. Mastriano and David T. Zabecki, and bound to be required
reading for military officers, 19 military historians trace the
service of, and lessons learned, in that conflict by 22 key figures
from future Army chiefs of staff and Marine Corps commandants, to
specialists and regimental commanders.
*Professor Spencer C. Tucker, John Biggs Chair of Military History
(Ret.), Virginia Military Institute*
A major contribution to the history of World War I.
*Williamson Murray, Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University*
Pershing’s Lieutenants is a valuable re-source for those interested
in the U.S. contribution to victory in World War I.
*Military History*
Pershing’s Lieutenants is an ideal first book for anyone interested
in the US contribution to WWI and the officer corps of the American
Expeditionary Force.
*Jörg Muth, Author of ‘Command Culture’*
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