A Fraternity of Arms: America and France in the Great War

Norman B. Tomlinson Award

Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award

By the beginning of the twentieth century, the United States had already become an international power and a recognized force at sea, but its army remained little more than a frontier constabulary. In fact, when America finally entered World War I, the U.S. Army was still only a tenth the size of the smallest of the major European forces.

While most previous work on America's participation in the Great War has focuse...