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The Great War and Americans in Europe, 1914-1917
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The Great War and Americans in Europe, 19141917

This book examines the experiences of Americans in Europe during the First World War prior to the U.S. declaration of war. Key groups include volunteer soldiers, doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers, reporters, diplomats, peace activists, charitable workers, and long-term American expatriate civilians. What these Americans wrote about the Great War, as published in contemporary books and periodicals, provides the core source material for this volume. Author Kenneth D. Rose argues that these writings served the critical function of preparing the American public for the declaration of war, one of the most important decisions of the twentieth century, and defined the threat and consequences of the European conflict for Americans and American interests at home and abroad.

Kenneth D. Rose teaches history at California State University, Chico. He is the author of Unspeakable Awfulness: America Through the Eyes of European Travelers, 18651900 (New York: Routledge, 2014), Myth and the Greatest Generation: A Social History of Americans in World War II (New York: Routledge, 2008), One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture (New York: New York University Press, 2001), and American Women and the Repeal of Prohibition (New York: New York University Press, 1996).

First published 2017

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ISBN: 978-1-315-20917-3 (ebk)

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For Jeanne

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Thomas Hobbes

The right is more precious than peace

Woodrow Wilson

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No one produces a book on ones own. We all rely on the historical actors who left behind their stories and on the scholars who have labored before us. We also rely on friends and colleagues for their good judgment and suggestions. In this regard I have been especially fortunate. Jeff Livingston read over my chapter on American diplomacy, and his suggestions were most welcome. Writing a book requires that we educate ourselves on a number of subjects, and invaluable to me were Laird Eastons efforts to educate me in modern German history. His encyclopedic knowledge of this subject meant that he was able to steer me toward sources that helped make this book much better than it would have been otherwise.

Those who read portions of these chapters include the aforementioned and especially Robert OBrien, who looked at everything I wrote. Little escaped his writers eye, and I figured if I could pass his scrutiny, I would be in good shape. Thank you, Robert.

The staff at Routledge did their usual impressive job of getting this book to press. My editor Eve Mayer was a good shepherd for this project, and Ted Meyer did yeoman duty. The suggestions of the (unknown) reviewers of the manuscript forced me to fill in some blanks and tighten my argument. No writer initially takes well to criticism, but in the end we all have to admit that criticism makes for a better manuscript.

My wife Jeanne Lawrence not only puts up with me when I am in the throes of writing (she has seen me through five of these projects) but is a fantastic editor as well. Her diligence and devotion mean that I am extremely fortunate both as a writer and as a husband. Jeanne, I couldnt have done it without you.

1914

28 June: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife are assassinated in Sarajevo.

5 July: Austria-Hungary secures German blank check of support.

23 July: Austro-Hungarian submits ultimatum to Serbia.

28 July: Austria-Hungary declares war against Serbia.

30 July: Russia mobilizes.

1 August: Germany declares war against Russia. France mobilizes.

2 August: Germany invades Luxembourg.

3 August: Germany declares war on France. Britain mobilizes. Belgium refuses to grant permission for the passage of German troops through Belgium.

4 August: Germany invades Belgium. Britain declares war on Germany.

5 August: Austro-Hungarian government declares war on Russia.

7 August13 September: Battle of the Frontiers in France, with German victories against French and British forces.

12 August: Britain and France declare war on Austria-Hungary.

16 August: Russia invades East Prussia.

17 August20 August: German attacks against Russia in East Prussia fail.

20 August: Germans occupy Brussels.

22 August: British forces land in France.

23 August: Battle of Mons.

23 August30 August: Germans defeat Russians at Battle of Tannenberg.

23 AugustSeptember 11: Russians capture Lviv at Battle of Lemberg. Late AugustEarly September: Allies retreat to the Marne.

5 September12 September: German advance halted at the Battle of the Marne.

9 September14 September: Russians defeated by Germans at Battle of Masurian Lakes.

28 September10 October: The siege and capture of Antwerp by Germans.

29 September31 October: Battle of Warsaw results in Russian victory.

19 October22 November: In the First Battle of Ypres, Germans fail to capture Calais and Dunkirk.

29 October: Turkey enters war on side of Central Powers.

2 November: Britain begins naval blockade of Germany.

5 November: Britain and France declare war on Turkey and the Ottoman Empire.

2 December: Belgrade captured by Austrians.

8 December: German naval forces defeated at Battle of the Falklands.

15 December: Belgrade recaptured by Serbs.

24 December25 December: German and Allied forces spontaneously agree to a Christmas truce.

1915

17 December 191413 January 1915: First Battle of Artois.

20 December 191417 March 1915: First Battle of Champagne.

4 February: Germans declare unrestricted submarine warfare.

7 February22 February: Russian army defeated at Second Battle of Masurian Lakes.

19 February: Beginning of Gallipoli campaign.

22 March: Russians capture Przemysl.

22 April25 May: Stalemate at Second Battle of Ypres. Germans use gas on the Western Front for the first time.

2 May27 June: Austro-German offensive in Galicia.

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