Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1. Pershing’s Crusaders: The American Soldiers of the Great War
2. “I Want You for the U.S. Army”: Motivations, Joining Up, and Conscription
3. “Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning”: Life in Training Camps
4. Learning “The Savage Game”: Training in the United States
5. Of “Canned Willie,” “Slum,” and Hard Bread: The Doughboy’s Food
6. Of “Tin Hats,” “Little Tanks,” and Entrenching Tools: The Doughboy’s Clothing and Equipment
7. Be It Ever So Humble: The Doughboys’ Shelter
8. “Good-Bye Broadway, Hello France”: Life on Board Ship for France
9. “The French They Have Their Customs Rare, Parlez-Vous”: The Doughboys and the French and British People
10. Of Trench Guns, Sho-Shos, and Trench Knives: The Doughboy’s Weapons
11. “Oh, the Army, the Army, the Democratic Army, the Jews, the Wops, the Dutch and Irish Cops”: Ethnic Soldiers and African Americans in the AEF
12. The Ninety-Day Wonders and Sam Brownes: The Officers and NCOs of the AEF
13. After England Failed: Tommies, Poilus, and the American Soldiers
14. Harsh Schoolmasters, Devious Huns, and Dejected Prisoners: the Doughboys and the German Soldiers Meet
15. Training and Trenches in France
16. “Mother, Take Down Your Service Flag, Your Son’s in the S.O.S.”: Life in the Services of Supply and the Rear Area
17. “How ‘Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down on the Farm, after They’ve Seen Paree?”: Sex, Sin, and Temptation in the AEF
18. ÜSky Pilots,” “Holy Joes,” and the Doughboy’s Religion
19. The Longest Hours: Preparing for Battle
20. The Big Show: The Doughboy in Combat
21. “The Cavalry, the Artillery, the Lousy Engineers”: The Artilleryman, Tankers, Combat Engineers, and Signalmen in Battle
22. Restless Young Men with Guns: Morale and Discipline
23. CC Pills, Going West, and the Hen-flew-End-Ways: The Sick, the Wounded, and the Dead
24. “And We’ll All Go Back ‘Cause It’s Over, Over Here”: The Armistice, Occupation Duty, and Returning Home
Notes
Bibliography
Index