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Review Of "Brothers To The Buffalo Soldiers: Perspectives On The African American Militia And Volunteers, 1865-1917" By Bruce Glasrud, Jennifer D. Keene
Review Of "Brothers To The Buffalo Soldiers: Perspectives On The African American Militia And Volunteers, 1865-1917" By Bruce Glasrud, Jennifer D. Keene
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This is a review of Bruce Glasrud's "Brothers to the Buffalo Soldiers: Perspectives on the African American Militia and Volunteers."
Fighting The Great War: Reconsidering The American Soldier Experience, Jennifer D. Keene
Fighting The Great War: Reconsidering The American Soldier Experience, Jennifer D. Keene
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Why men fight is a particularly apt question to ask about the American soldier in World War I. Unlike Europeans in 1914, Americans went to war with their eyes wide open. They had already seen the worst of industrial warfare both on the high seas when the 1915 Lusitania sinking illustrated the dangers of ocean travel and on the battlefield when the 1916 battles of the Somme and Verdun left no doubt about the staggering casualties trench warfare engendered. Nonetheless, Americans displayed a certain naive enthusiasm for war in 1917. When American soldiers arrived overseas, French soldiers noted how much …