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Article: Yanks: The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I.(Book Review)
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- The Historian
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- March 22, 2003
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Yanks: The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I. By John S. D. Eisenhower with Joanne T. Eisenhower. (New York: The Free Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 353. $35.00.)
There is no doubting the importance of the American contribution to the First World War. At the very least, the knowledge that tens of thousands of young Americans would arrive in France, like a transfusion of blood into the battered body of the Alliance, jolted the German high command into its great gambler's throw, the spring offensive of 1918. Many would go further, arguing that the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) not only made an important contribution to repulsing this attack, but went on, ...