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Summary Of The War To End All Wars By Coffman

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The book, The War to End All Wars, presents an in-depth image into the American Army at an effective level. The author takes the reader through every single aspect of the war on the American side. The book explains how the staff began preparing for the war. It clarifies how the United States needed to build a system of bases in the United States to train soldiers. The book describes the building of the Army, the difficulties in training, the preparation, and even the personalities of some soldiers. This book touches down heavily on military strategies and battle tactics. In his book Coffman provides an interesting opinion about the First World War. The early part of the book rushes through how the US (in the end) came to be involved in the …show more content…

The reader will find no discussion on the murder of Archduke Ferdinand or information of the Schlieffen Plan. They will instead find details on the Selective Service Act and the famous American air ace, Eddie Rickenbacker. Throughout this work, Coffman shows the United States as an important player in the Great War, and refreshingly he does not repeat the relation to Europe parts of the war about which so many others have written. He is effective in his writings, and his reader will have a better understanding of the American World War I military experience. Mostly, Coffman examines the US Army, but he also dedicates time to each branch of the military such as the Navy, Air Force, and the Marines. The book gives vision at the performance of each branch and gives short-term amounts of information about clever inventions during the war especially in the land areas owned or controlled by someone of naval and air power. As one would expect, Coffman also writes about the major American military leaders such as John J. Pershing and William J. Donovan, but more interesting than his …show more content…

As a result, the political movements of supporting group war fighting and high-level relation to a plan to reach a goal, decisions receives only enough attention to place his subject in a proper way of seeing things or sensible view of what is and is not important. The creation of the AEF, the largest American armed force ever sent to fight on foreign soil up to that time, is a scary. Coffman covers all parts of this huge and extreme army. General John J. Pershing sailed for France with what amounted to a under strengthened division: the 1st Division. The AEF grew to a corps sized force, and eventually the First and Second Armies. In April 1917, the AEF consisted of 200,000 soldiers. By November 1918, it contained nearly 4,000,000. In addition to discussions on the War Department in 1917, and the stateside (act of something getting bigger, wider, etc.) of the United States Army, the author also covers other important

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