The AEF and Coalition Warmaking,1917-1918 (Modern War Studies)

Trask argues that the performance of the AEF and General John J. Pershing were more flawed than conventional accounts have suggested. Trask contends that President Wilson and General Pershing's initial insistence on an independence American force rather than an integration with existing French and British armies resulted in costly delays and bitter victories in the decisive Allied counteroffensives against Ludendorff and the Central Powers.