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From the New York Times bestselling author of War Letters and Behind the Lines Andrew Carrolls My Fellow Soldiers draws on a rich trove of both little-known and newly uncovered letters and diaries to create a marvelously vivid and moving account of the American experience in World War I with General John Pershing featured prominently in the foreground.
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Andrew Carrolls intimate portrait of General Pershing who led all of the American troops in Europe during World War I is a revelation. Given a military force that on the eve of its entry into the war was downright primitive compared to the European combatants the general surmounted enormous obstacles to build an army and ultimately command millions of U.S. soldiers. But Pershing himselfoften perceived as a harsh humorless and wooden leaderconcealed inner agony from those around him: almost two years before the United States entered the war Pershing suffered a personal tragedy so catastrophic that he almost went insane with grief and remained haunted by the loss for the rest of his life as private and previously unpublished letters he wrote to family members now reveal. Before leaving for Europe?? Pershing also had a passionate romance wi