America's Race to Victory (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book America's Race to Victory (Classic Reprint) written by E. Réquin and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from America's Race to Victory In "America's Race to Victory" Lieutenant Colonel Requin has presented a vivid and stimulating picture of the problem which our country faced in April, 1917, the faulty organization with which we at first attempted its solution and the gradual steps by which our national endeavor gained momentum until it swept everything before it in what was, indeed, a "race to victory." To this work of appreciation of the military, industrial and political effort of another nation Colonel Requin applied a mind stamped with the General Staff "doctrine" of Marshal Foch and the French Ecole Superieure de Guerre and developed by battle experience during the first two and half years of the war. Until his arrival in the United States with Marshal Joffre in May, 1917, Colonel Requin knew little of our military resources and nothing of our national character, our political system or the obstacles which were to be overcome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.