Although the United States reaped its title of the world’s most powerful country as a result of its 18-month engagement in the war to end all wars, which saw 10 million lose their lives, Ells sees the conflict as slipping from the remembrance of things past, particularly the American experience, and aims to correct that trend. He presents a guide that follows in the footsteps of the Doughboys, the U.S. Navy, the YMCA, and the Red Cross, and fleshes out their experiences drawing on letters, diaries and memoirs, as well as locates their monuments. There are 18 chronological chapters: the road to war; John J. Pershing; training camps; port of embarkation; the Great War at sea; arrival in Europe; first blood; Americans on the Marne; behind the lines; African American troops; the Great War in the air; Saint-Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; heroism in the Argonne; Champagne; farther afield; fini la guerre!; aftermath. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)