How America Won World War I, Alan Axelrod
How America Won World War I, Alan Axelrod
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How America Won World War I

Author: Alan Axelrod

Narrator: David de Vries

Unabridged: 10 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/01/2018


Synopsis

Immediately after the armistice was signed in November, 1918, an American journalist asked Paul von Hindenburg who won the war against Germany. He was the chief of the German General Staff, co-architect with Erich Ludendorff of Germany's Eastern Front victories and its nearly war-winning Western Front offensives, and he did not hesitate in his answer. "The American infantry," he said. He made it even more specific, telling the reporter that the final death blow for Germany was delivered by "the American infantry in the Argonne."

The British and the French often denigrated the American contribution to the war, but they had begged for U.S. entry into the conflict, and their stake in America’s victory was, if anything, even greater than that of the United States itself. But How America Won World War I will not litigate the points of view of Britain and France. The book will accept as gospel the assessment of the top German leader whose job it had been to oppose the Americans directly—that the American infantry won the war—and this book will tell how the American infantry did it.

About Alan Axelrod

Historian Alan Axelrod is the author of the business bestsellers Elizabeth I CEO and Patton on Leadership, as well as many books on American military history. He has appeared on MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, Fox, and NPR, and his work has been featured in BusinessWeek, Fortune, and Cosmopolitan, among other publications. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Laura

I know, who would admit to buying a "Complete Idiot’s" guide to anything? Not that there aren’t plenty of subjects for which I’d need a complete idiot’s guide, like physics or car mechanics, but why on earth would I want to learn about those? The Great War, on the other hand, is a beloved obsession,......more

Goodreads review by Cav

"...in World War I getting killed became a rather more impersonal event—“rarely was there any individual opponent to outwit, outrun, or outthink.” Breech-loading had shortened the interval between firings, and field guns now had recoil systems that took up the counterforce of propulsion without jolt......more

Goodreads review by Sarah

This book is a great book to start with if you're just beginning to learn about World War I. My classes in school and college didn't really go into very much detail about World War I, and it always seemed like a very complicated war. It was a very complicated war, and The Complete Idiot's Guide helps......more

Goodreads review by PBJ

WWII gets all the attention. Without WWI, there'd be no WWII.......more

Goodreads review by Alan

Great book in so many ways. I learned many new facts and opinions about WWI that I did not know, and I have read a ton of books on WWI and WWII. For example, I did not realize the huge risk Foch was taking when he did not reinforce the British line during the 1918 German offensive after Ludendorff b......more