Why America Won the War
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Capturing and consecrating the American contribution to victory in World War I.
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“Showing the Machinery of War as it related to Ship Building, Munitions Making, Manufacturing of Trucks, Aeroplanes, Laying out of Training Camps, Naval Vessels, Dreadnoughts, Battleships, Destroyers, Submarines, Officers’ Training Schools, Flying Fields, Transport Convoys, Docks, Railways, Lumber Camps, the Doughboys on their way Over There, arriving at Brest, final training in French Camps, the Zero Hour, in the Thick of Battle, the Terror and Joy, the Comedy and Tragedy of War.” [Preface, Vol. I]
This amazing collection of twenty-four bound volumes with the slightly insulting title of Why America Won the War claims to provide a comprehensive photographic history of WWI (despite beginning in 1918). It was compiled and edited by Roy Oscar Randall and John Sydney Baxter and published on a subscription basis by the Union Book and Publishing Company in 1921 and 1922. The scores of captioned photographs provide a fascinating, if clearly biased, window into the operations of the war on the Western Front.
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Publication Date: 1921
Author: Roy Oscar Randall and John Sydney Baxter
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Condition: A
Condition Description: Complete set of twenty-four volumes, each bound in original paper wraps (two volumes in string, the rest stapled) and consisting of approximately 16-24 double sided pages of captioned photographs. Contents are complete and generally in very good condition, with a few spots of soiling, bent corners, etc. consistent with age and use.
$200.00
1 in stock