Pershing’s Crusaders: The American Soldier in World War I
Event Date
11/19/2018
Event Time6:00 pm;
Location
Union League of Philadelphia
210 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Richard S. Faulkner – Award winning WWI Historian at the Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, and noted author will address American Legion Post 405 at the Union League on Monday, November 19, 2018 at 6pm commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the end of World War I.
Faulkner is a WWI Historian and author of the award-winning book ‘Pershing’s Crusaders’. Dr. Faulkner’s award-winning book will be available for sale and he will sign his books at the event.
The American Legion post has secured an international expert on WW1 to speak in November 2018. November 11th, 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the armistice ending WW1 – an appropriate time to reflect, remember, and give thanks to those who made the world safe for us to grow to the present day.
Richard Faulkner is a world-renowned author and expert on WW1, especially the American experience. The Post would like to invite any and all who have interest in the American Soldier to attend and make this a grand event open to all.
RSVP’s appreciated at: awaskie@temple.edu
The World War One Historical Association (WW1HA) annual Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr., prize for 2017 for the best work of history in English on World War One (1914-1918) has been awarded to two exceptional historians: Robert Gerwarth for his The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); and Richard Faulkner for Pershing’s Crusaders: The American Soldier in World War I (University Press of Kansas).
Pershing’s Crusaders offers a clear, close-up picture of the doughboys in all of their vibrant diversity, shared purpose, and unmistakably American character. It encompasses an array of subjects from the food they ate, the clothes they wore, their view of the Allied and German soldiers and civilians they encountered, their sexual and spiritual lives, their reasons for serving, and how they lived and fought, to what they thought about their service along every step of the way. Faulkner’s vast yet finely detailed portrait draws upon a wealth of sources—thousands of soldiers’ letters and diaries, surveys and memoirs, and a host of period documents and reports generated by various staff agencies of the American Expeditionary Forces. Animated by the voices of soldiers and civilians in the midst of unprecedented events, these primary sources afford an immediacy rarely found in historical records. Pershing’s Crusaders is, finally, a work that uniquely and vividly captures the reality of the American soldier in WWI for all time.
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