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AMERICA AT
WAR
WORLD
WAR I
Scott Marquette
www.rourkepublishing.com
© 2003 Rourke Publishing LLC
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or
by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any
information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from the pub-
lisher.
PHOTO CREDITS: Marine Corps Art Collection: cover, page 7; U.S. Army Center of
Military History: pages 20, 40; Defense Visual Information Center: pages 4, 6, 10, 12,
14, 16, 18, 22, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 42, 44; National Archives and Records
Administration: page 26; Library of Congress: page 24.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Marquette, Scott.
World War I / Scott Marquette.
p. cm. -- (America at war)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-58952-392-X (hard cover)
ISBN 978-1-60694-758-6 (soft cover)
1. World War, 1914-1918--Juvenile literature. 2. World War,
1914-1918--United States--Juvenile literature. I. Title: World War 1.
II. Title: World War One. III. Title. IV Series.
.
D522.7 .M27 2002
940.3--dc21
2002001237
Printed in the USA
Cover Image:
U.S. Marines break through German defenses on the
last night of World War I, November 10, 1918.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: The War to End All Wars?........ 5
Map of Europe, 1914-1918.............................. 7
Timeline ........................................................... 8
A Powder Keg Explodes ................................. 9
The Slow Crusade ...........................................15
Over There ......................................................21
The First “Total War”......................................27
Armistice..........................................................33
“This Is Not Peace” ........................................39
Further Reading...............................................45
Glossary ...........................................................46
Index.................................................................48
World War I was the first war that was fought
all over the Earth. More than 30 million men died or
were wounded in the war.

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