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The War to End All Wars : The American Military Experience in World War I
author
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Coffman, Edward M.
publisher
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University Press of Kentucky
isbn10 | asin
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0813120969
print isbn13
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9780813120966
ebook isbn13
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9780813170596
language
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English
subject
World War, 1914-1918--United States.
publication date
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1998
lcc
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D570.C6 1998eb
ddc
:
940.4/0973
subject
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World War, 1914-1918--United States.
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The War to End All Wars
The American Military Experience in World War I
Edward M. Coffman
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Publication of this volume was made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Copyright 1968, 1986 by Edward M. Coffman Preface to the 1998 Edition Copyright 1998 by Edward M. Coffman
Published by The University Press of Kentucky
Scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth, serving Bellarmine College, Berea College, Centre College of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University, The Filson Club Historical Society, Georgetown College, Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky State University, Morehead State University, Murray State University, Northern Kentucky University, Transylvania University, University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, and Western Kentucky University. All rights reserved
First published in 1968 by Oxford University Press
Editorial and Sales Offices: The University Press of Kentucky 663 South Limestone Street, Lexington, Kentucky 40508-4008
02 01 00 99 98 5 4 3 2 1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Coffman, Edward. M. The war to end all wars : the American military experience in World War I / Edward M. Coffman. p. cm. Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1968. With new pref. by author. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8131-2096-9 (alk. paper). ISBN 0-8131-0955-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. World War, 1914-1918United States. I. Title. D570.C6 1998 940.4'0973dc21 98-15563
This book is printed on acid-free recycled paper meeting the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials.
Manufactured in the United States of America
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To Anne
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Preface
"The war" meant the World War when I was growing up in the 1930's. My father and most of the other middle-aged men in my hometown were veterans, and I was fascinated by their war stories. Parades and ceremonies on Armistice Day also helped keep the memory of that war alive. In the 1940's, World War II eclipsed what then became known as World War I in the nation's consciousness. Over the next four decades, the Cold War preoccupied Americans, with the experiences of the Korean War and the Vietnam War further dimming memories of 1917 and 1918.
This book originally appeared in 1968, and that golden anniversary of World War I came at a time when the Vietnam War was reaching its nadir. Approximately a third of those who served in World War I (almost 1.9 million) were still living then, but a people sickened by a war they watched on television paid little attention to them. They had become, as my father in his last years said, "the forgotten men." Twenty-five years later on Armistice Day, now called Veterans Day, only one American family attended the memorial service at Romagne, the largest American military cemetery in Europe, where the dead from the Meuse-Argonne campaign are buried. During this eightieth anniversary of the war, only some four thousand veterans survive. What they and their comrades did so long ago certainly deserves to be remembered.
Although many American historians were enthusiastic about the war
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during 1917-1918 and a few later wrote about it, virtually none showed any interest by the 1950's when I began my graduate studies. Nor did I, initially, as the Civil War then captivated me. After considering at length a Civil War topic for a dissertation, however, I came across an obituary in the morning newspaper which changed my mind. The death of Peyton C. March, who as Chief of Staff was the top-ranking American soldier in the last months of World War I, evoked a desire to learn more about March's accomplishments during the war. Preliminary research turned up relevant personal papers of March and other key figures at the Library of Congress and his office files at the National Archives. I also corresponded with or interviewed quite a few people who had been closely associated with him. During my research I had a virtually clean slate as there were hardly any other scholars in the entire field of the American participation in World War I.
Before I completed The Hilt of the Sword: The Career of Peyton C. March, former Wisconsin governor Philip F. LaFollette, a friend and World War I veteran, suggested that I write a history of the war. He also put me in touch with Sheldon Meyer of Oxford University Press, who was then planning a series on American wars. As it happened, the series did not materialize as only The War to End All Wars and Charles B. MacDonald's The Mighty Endeavor: American Armed Forces in the European Theater in World War II were published.
I conceived of this book as a comprehensive history of the American military experience in World War I. I wanted to deal with the administrative and logistical aspects of the War Department and the strategic and diplomatic matters at the high command level, but I also wished to describe how the draft worked, what the training camps were like, and how the generals' plans affected the men in the trenches. I planned to devote separate chapters to the sea and air wars. As it happened, they were among the earliest I wrote. Originally, I thought I would do more with the two expeditions to Russia but time and space limited that coverage.
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