The following article on the Battle of Cantigny is an excerpt from H.W Crocker III's The Yanks Are Coming! A Military History of the United States in World War I. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. It was one thing for Congress to declare war—which it did on 6 April…
The following article on the Battle of Chateau-Thierry is an excerpt from H.W Crocker III's The Yanks Are Coming! A Military History of the United States in World War I. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. With the arrival of the U.S. marines, and their support of the beleaguered…
The following article on the Battle of Belleau Wood is an excerpt from H.W Crocker III's The Yanks Are Coming! A Military History of the United States in World War I. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. In the early stages of World War I, Germany was obsessed with knocking…
The following article on the end of World War I is an excerpt from H.W Crocker III's The Yanks Are Coming! A Military History of the United States in World War I. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The Russian sideshow was but one part of America’s introduction to…
The following article is an excerpt from H.W Crocker III's The Yanks Are Coming! A Military History of the United States in World War I. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. All four sons of former president Theodore Roosevelt served in the Great War. One, the youngest son, Quentin (1897-1918),…
The following article is an excerpt from H.W Crocker III's The Yanks Are Coming! A Military History of the United States in World War I. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. When Sir Edward Grey, Britain’s foreign secretary, received word that Germany had declared war on France, he was…
The following article is an excerpt from H.W Crocker III's The Yanks Are Coming! A Military History of the United States in World War I. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Harry Truman was the only American president to have seen action in World War I. Franklin Roosevelt was…
The following article on what started WW1 is an excerpt from H.W Crocker III's The Yanks Are Coming! A Military History of the United States in World War I. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. At first it all seemed very far away. The possibility of a Great War…
The following article on Patton in World War I is an excerpt from H.W Crocker III's The Yanks Are Coming! A Military History of the United States in World War I. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. George S. Patton is a legendary World War II general, but much…
The following article on generals of World War 1 is an excerpt from H.W Crocker III's The Yanks Are Coming! A Military History of the United States in World War I. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The generals of World War 1 have been considered by some historians to…