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including the immensely popular former president Theodore Roosevelt

to guerrilla warrior against the Philippines insurgency to victorious commander in WWI

and their interactions with the men they cared for and served with

preparations for war were largely confined to maintaining equipment and fortifications and instilling discipline in the enlisted ranks through parade ground drill

Pershing's Crusaders Historical Fiction waves of American riflemen fromDescription by Richard S. Faulkner Hardcover The Great War caught a generation of American soldiers at a turning point in the nations history. At the moment of the Republics emergence as a key player on the world stage, these were the first Americans to endure mass machine warfare, and the first to come into close contact with foreign peoples and cultures in large numbers. What was it like, Richard S. Faulkner asks, to be one of these foot soldiers at