Thunder and Flames: Americans in the Crucible of Combat, 1917-1918

Winner: Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award

Winner: Master Corporal Jan Stanislaw Jakobczak Memorial Book Award

November 1917. The American troops were poorly trained, deficient in military equipment and doctrine, not remotely ready for armed conflict on a large scale—and they’d arrived on the Western front to help the French push back the Germans. The story of what happened next—the American Expeditionary Force’s trial by fire on the brutal battlefields of France—is told in f...