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Our Army at the Front

by Heywood BROUN (1888 - 1939)

Speeding Up

Our Army at the Front

During the US deployment in Europe in the final years of the Great War (WWI), the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) was accompanied by notable New York Tribune war correspondent, Heywood Broun. Although Broun better known (and remembered) as a sports writer, drama critic, journalist and social reformer, and not least as a member of the Algonquin Round Table, with such wits as Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley, his writing of the activities of the AEF as it helped defeat the Central Powers in the war provides a unique perspective, including a view of the international interaction between the Americans and their European allies. The work concludes by reprinting the initial report to the Secretary of Defense by American General John J. (Black Jack) Pershing who was the commander of the AEF, and contains detailed information regarding the level of the US effort and something of the obstacles which had to be overcome for the AEF efforts to be successful. (Dr.PGould)

Listen next episodes of Our Army at the Front:
A Civilian Visitor , A Famous Gesture , Back with the Big Guns , Behind the Lines , Cease Firing , France and the Medicoes , General Pershing's Report , In Charge of Morale , Into the Trenches , Meuse-Argonne Begins , Our Own Sector , Some Distinguished Visitors , St. Mihiel , Teufel-Hunden , The Army of Manoeuvre , The Eyes of the Army , The First Two Battles , The Men Who Did Everything , The Schools for Officers