Over There: The United States in the Great War, 1917-1918

When the United States finally declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917, the British and French armies were at a point of total exhaustion. Within two weeks the French troops had mutinied, leaving the Western Front practically undefended. In the same month, Lenin arrived in Moscow on the heels of the Russian Revolution and vowed to make peace with Germany. To make matters worse, the Allies had reason to be dubious about the help they were receiving from across the Atlantic. The U.S. Army ra...