Author: Freidel, Frank, Harvard Professor of History,
Title: Over There: the story of America's first great overseas crusade.
Description: Boston, Little Brown, (1964). 1st ed. VG in G DJ. "Over there" was the shell-tortured Western Front in 1917 where the battered Allies badly needed fresh troops. And the Yanks. were comng, two millions of them to make the world "safe for democracy". They were enlisting, training and marching. Barracks began sprouting all over the U.S. and American subchasers cleared the way for the vital "bridge of ships" across the Atlantic. Diaries and letters written half a century ago brings two wartime years to life. War's dirt and its glory, humor, heroism, privates as well as generals. DJ edge wear.

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