The American Expeditionary Forces in World War I

By John Votaw

Upon the entry of the United States into World War I, the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) were created by the War Department on short notice from existing units, filled up with men from the training camps and deployed with only their personal weapons and equipment. The US Army was not prepared for combat in France, and the remarkable achievement of the AEF’s commanding officer, John J Pershing, was the creation of an American field army, built and nurtured from the bottom up. This book details the organizational structure, training and doctrine of the AEF and illustrates how it came to make a significant contribution to Allied victory in World War I.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Mar 19, 2013
• ISBN: 9781472802019

Reviews for The American Expeditionary Forces in World War I

[shrike58 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This turned out to be a very good summation of the command and force structure of the U.S. ground forces in Europe in the Great War. About my one critique is whether the space devoted to the Army Air Service would have been better spent on U.S. troops deployed to Siberia and Italy.