Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook453 pages5 hours
Caissons Go Rolling Along: A Memoir of America in Post-World War I Germany
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
Major General Johnson Hagood (1873–1948) was one of South Carolina's most distinguished army officers of the twentieth century. An artillerist and a scholar of military science, Hagood became a noted expert in logistics and served as the chief of staff of the Services of Supply in World War I Europe. Taken from Hagood's wartime journal, Caissons Go Rolling Along describes his artillery brigade's march into Germany in 1918, the wartime devastation, his impressions of the defeated enemy and occupied territories, and his tour of the recent battlefields in the company of the commanders who fought there.
Written in a conversational style, the narrative focuses principally on Hagood's time in command of the Sixty-sixth Field Artillery Brigade following the armistice. The Sixty-sixth FAB was attached to the American Third Army, which later became the American occupation force in the Rhineland. Hagood recorded his impressions of the conditions in which he found his men at the end of the war and the events of a tour of the French, British, and American battlefields. More important, he set down a record of the devastation of the French countryside, the contrasting lack of suffering he found in Germany, the character of the Germans, and some predictions for the future.
"I have left the text as it was when we held these people at the point of the bayonet," he wrote in his preface years later. "The opinions we formed at that time are important because they were the basis of our action. . . . The scourge of the Great War took a heavy toll . . . and we Americans might as well keep in mind what we were fighting for." Hagood captures defining aspects of the American character at the close of World War I. He described a boisterous, optimistic people, sure of their new place in the world. Rome provided Hagood with an analogy for the new American empire, which he took for granted in his postwar memoir. Completed during Hagood's lifetime but unpublished until now, Caissons Go Rolling Along is an engrossing portrait of war-torn Europe, a stark reminder of grim realities of the Great War, and a richly detailed look at the daunting task of occupying and rebuilding a defeated nation.
Written in a conversational style, the narrative focuses principally on Hagood's time in command of the Sixty-sixth Field Artillery Brigade following the armistice. The Sixty-sixth FAB was attached to the American Third Army, which later became the American occupation force in the Rhineland. Hagood recorded his impressions of the conditions in which he found his men at the end of the war and the events of a tour of the French, British, and American battlefields. More important, he set down a record of the devastation of the French countryside, the contrasting lack of suffering he found in Germany, the character of the Germans, and some predictions for the future.
"I have left the text as it was when we held these people at the point of the bayonet," he wrote in his preface years later. "The opinions we formed at that time are important because they were the basis of our action. . . . The scourge of the Great War took a heavy toll . . . and we Americans might as well keep in mind what we were fighting for." Hagood captures defining aspects of the American character at the close of World War I. He described a boisterous, optimistic people, sure of their new place in the world. Rome provided Hagood with an analogy for the new American empire, which he took for granted in his postwar memoir. Completed during Hagood's lifetime but unpublished until now, Caissons Go Rolling Along is an engrossing portrait of war-torn Europe, a stark reminder of grim realities of the Great War, and a richly detailed look at the daunting task of occupying and rebuilding a defeated nation.
Unavailable
Related to Caissons Go Rolling Along
Related ebooks
Caissons Go Rolling Along: A Memoir of America in Post-World War I Germany Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Story of the Little Big Horn: Custer’s Last Fight Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Lancaster County and the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsReminiscences of Big I Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Compensations of War: The Diary of an Ambulance Driver during the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOver The Top: Veterans of the First World War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Passing of the Armies: An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Passing Of The Armies Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGentlemen Volunteers: The Story of the American Ambulance Drivers in the First World War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNew Hampshire in the Civil War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsExposing the Third Reich: Colonel Truman Smith in Hitler's Germany Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Memoirs of a Confederate Staff Officer Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLetters Home: From a World War Ii “Black Panther” Artilleryman Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHome Front to Battlefront: An Ohio Teenager in World War II Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGettysburg's Other Battle: The Ordeal of an American Shrine during the First World War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHarrisburg and the Civil War: Defending the Keystone of the Union Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5World War I Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOur Jungle Road to Tokyo Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Last Ditch: Britain's Secret Resistance and the Nazi Invasion Plans Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Victors: Eisenhower And His Boys The Men Of World War Ii Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Two Texans, Two World Wars: My father and grandfather's stories: Robert Holmes and Charles Harwood Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFlight Into Oblivion Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTo the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ike: An American Hero Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Our Jungle Road To Tokyo [Illustrated Edition] Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Double V: How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America’s Military Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWar in Words Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTrue Stories of World War II Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Military Biographies For You
Scars and Stripes: An Unapologetically American Story of Fighting the Taliban, UFC Warriors, and Myself Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Personal Memoirs Of U.s. Grant Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Daily Creativity Journal Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Mein Kampf: The Original, Accurate, and Complete English Translation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDelta Force: A Memoir by the Founder of the U.S. Military's Most Secretive Special-Operations Unit Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Caesar: Life of a Colossus Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Alexander the Great Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Staring Down the Wolf: 7 Leadership Commitments That Forge Elite Teams Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5To Hell and Back: The Classic Memoir of World War II by America's Most Decorated Soldier Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Grateful American: A Journey from Self to Service Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: The Story of the First American Woman to Command a Space Mission Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir (40th Anniversary Edition) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Napoleon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What It Is Like to Go to War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Right Kind of Crazy: My Life as a Navy SEAL, Covert Operative, and Boy Scout from Hell Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer - The Unlikely Partnership that Built the Atom Bomb Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Caissons Go Rolling Along
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews