num_pages: 404
description: Bestselling military historian H. W. Crocker III ( The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War  Robert E. Lee on Leadership  etc.) now turns his guns on the epic story of Americas involvement in the First World War with his new book The Yanks Are A Military History of the United States in World War I .2014 marks the centenary of the beginning of that war and in Crockers sweeping American-focused account readers will How George S. Patton Douglas MacArthur George C. Marshall (of the Marshall Plan) Wild Bill Donovan (future founder of the OSS the World War II precursor to the CIA) Harry S. Truman and many other American heroes earned their military spurs in The Great WarWhy despite the efforts of the almost absurdly pacifistic administration of Woodrow Wilson American involvement in the war was inevitableHow the First World War was the War that Made the Modern Worldsweeping away most of the crowned heads of Europe redrawing the map of the Middle East setting the stage for the rise of communism and fascismWhy the First World War marked Americas transition from a frontier powersome of our World War I generals had actually fought Indiansto a global superpower with World War I generals like Douglas MacArthur living to see and help shape the nuclear ageThe Young Lions of the War -- heroes who should not be forgotten like air ace Eddie Rickenbacker Sergeant Alvin York (memorably portrayed by Gary Cooper in the Academy Awardwinning movie Sergeant York) and all four of Theodore Roosevelts sons (one of whom was killed)Stirring and full of brilliantly told stories of men at war The Yanks Are Coming will be the essential book for readers interested in rediscovering Americas role in the First World War on its hundredth anniversary.
language: English
title: The Yanks Are Coming!: A Military History of the United States in World War I
publisher: Regnery History