Serving the Doughboy

Serving the Doughboy
Author :
Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 279
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781476692647
ISBN-13 : 1476692645
Rating : 4/5 (645 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Serving the Doughboy by : Mary Frances Willard

Download or read book Serving the Doughboy written by Mary Frances Willard and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Frances Willard, a public-school principal from Chicago, was one of thousands of American women who served as welfare workers for U.S. troops in France during World War I. During the war's final months, she operated a canteen and post exchange in Troyes, attended to convalescing servicemen, arranged their burials and wrote letters to their families. After the Armistice, she headed canteen operations in Le Mans for hundreds of thousands of returning servicemen in embarkation camps. In her final months in France, she toured battlefields and the decimated towns along the Western Front. Presented in historical context, her weekly letters home--from August 1918 through July 1919--relate stories of her service to the doughboys and her interactions with French citizens.


Serving the Doughboy Related Books

Serving the Doughboy
Language: en
Pages: 279
Authors: Mary Frances Willard
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-01-04 - Publisher: McFarland

GET EBOOK

Mary Frances Willard, a public-school principal from Chicago, was one of thousands of American women who served as welfare workers for U.S. troops in France dur
The Last of the Doughboys
Language: en
Pages: 549
Authors: Richard Rubin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-21 - Publisher: HMH

GET EBOOK

“Before the Greatest Generation, there was the Forgotten Generation of World War I . . . wonderfully engaging” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). “Richard
Doughboy War
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: James H. Hallas
Categories: World War, 1914-1918
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers

GET EBOOK

Drawing on journals, diaries, personal narratives, and unit histories, Hallas relates the story of WWI's "doughboys" -- the men behind the American rifles. He w
Honoring the Doughboys
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Jeffrey A. Lowdermilk
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: George F Thompson Publishing

GET EBOOK

The author's passion for World War I and of military history began as a lad when he listened to his grandfather, George A. Carlson, tell his life's stories abou
Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Jennifer D. Keene
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: JHU Press

GET EBOOK

How does a democratic government conscript citizens, turn them into soldiers who can fight effectively against a highly trained enemy, and then somehow reward t