"AND THEY THOUGHT WE WOULDN'T FIGHT"
by Floyd Phillips Gibbons
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About this eBook
- Author
- Gibbons, Floyd Phillips, 1887-1939
- Title
- "And they thought we wouldn't fight"
- Credits
- Produced by Christine Aldridge, Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- D501: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War I (1914-1918)
- Subject
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 31086
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31086
- Release Date
- January 26, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1."AND THEY THOUGHT WE WOULDN'T FIGHT" — BY
- 2.FLOYD GIBBONS — NEW YORK — GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY — GENERAL JOHN J. PERSHING — THE AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES — I RESPECTFULLY DEDICATE THIS INADEQUATE RECORD IN REVERENT MEMORY OF OUR SACRED DEAD ON FIELDS IN FRANCE — ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- 3.FOREWORD
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.ILLUSTRATIONS
- 6."AND THEY THOUGHT WE WOULDN'T FIGHT"
- 7.CHAPTER I — THE SINKING OF THE Laconia
- 8.CHAPTER II — PERSHING'S ARRIVAL IN EUROPE
- 9.CHAPTER III — THE LANDING OF THE FIRST AMERICAN CONTINGENT IN FRANCE
- 10.CHAPTER IV — THROUGH THE SCHOOL OF WAR
- 11.CHAPTER V — MAKING THE MEN WHO MAN THE GUNS
- 12.CHAPTER VI — "FRONTWARD HO!"
- 13.CHAPTER VII — INTO THE LINE—THE FIRST AMERICAN SHOT IN THE WAR
- 14.CHAPTER VIII — THE FIRST AMERICAN SECTOR
- 15.CHAPTER IX — THE NIGHT OUR GUNS CUT LOOSE
- 16.CHAPTER X — INTO PICARDY TO MEET THE GERMAN PUSH
- 17.CHAPTER XI — UNDER FIRE
- 18.CHAPTER XII — BEFORE CANTIGNY
- 19.CHAPTER XIII — THE RUSH OF THE RAIDERS—"ZERO AT 2 A. M."
- 20.CHAPTER XIV — ON LEAVE IN PARIS
- 21.CHAPTER XV — CHÂTEAU-THIERRY AND THE BOIS DE BELLEAU
- 22.CHAPTER XVI — WOUNDED—HOW IT FEELS TO BE SHOT
- 23.CHAPTER XVII — "GOOD MORNING, NURSE"
- 24.CHAPTER XVIII — GROANS, LAUGHS AND SOBS IN THE HOSPITAL
- 25.CHAPTER XIX — "JULY 18TH"—THE TURN OF THE TIDE
- 26.CHAPTER XX — THE DAWN OF VICTORY
- 27.APPENDIX — PERSONNEL OF THE AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES IN FRANCE — 1ST ARMY CORPS — 2ND ARMY CORPS — 3D ARMY CORPS — 4TH ARMY CORPS — 5TH ARMY CORPS — UNASSIGNED TO CORPS
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