The Yanks Are Coming!

A Military History of the United States in World War I

By: H. W. Crocker

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Best-selling military historian H. W. Crocker III turns his guns on the epic story of America's involvement in the First World War with TheYanks Are Coming! A Military History of the United States in World War I.

The year 2014 marks the centenary of the beginning of the Great War, and in Crocker's sweeping, American-focused account, listeners will learn:

• How George S. Patton, Douglas MacArthur, George C. Marshall (of the Marshall Plan), "Wild Bill" Donovan (future founder of the OSS, the World War II precursor to the CIA), Harry S. Truman, and many other American heroes earned their military spurs in during World War I
• Why, despite the efforts of the almost absurdly pacifistic administration of Woodrow Wilson, American involvement in the war was inevitable
• How the First World War was "the war that made the modern world" - sweeping away most of the crowned heads of Europe, redrawing the map of the Middle East, setting the stage for the rise of communism and fascism
• Why the First World War marked America's transition from a frontier power - some of our World War I generals had actually fought Indians - to a global superpower, with World War I generals like Douglas MacArthur living to see, and help shape, the nuclear age
• About the "Young Lions of the War" - heroes who should not be forgotten, like air ace Eddie Rickenbacker, Sergeant Alvin York (memorably portrayed by Gary Cooper in the Academy Award - winning movie Sergeant York), and all four of Theodore Roosevelt's sons (one of whom was killed)

Stirring and full of brilliantly told stories of men at war, The Yanks Are Coming! will be the essential audiobook for listeners interested in rediscovering America's role in the First World War on its 100th anniversary.

©2014 H. W. Crocker III (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc

Veryi in depth book on the causes of World War 1

Very good book on the causes of World War I and the progression of what happened there in the war and what happened to the people after the war.
The narration was great and kept your interests during the whole book.

Should be required reading

This is an excellent review of the US involvement in the first World War and the major personalities involved. The writing is top notch, especially the final chapter which includes a question that every American should ask themselves which, if honestly answered, would strike at the core of our country's problems these days.

Tremendously well done

Simply stated, it’s a great book. The ending makes me wonder about our nation’s future.

A real gem

Do not miss this one. It’s truly excellent
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An excellent intricately detailed reminder to the world that DDay was not the first time American troops were forced to fight on European to end political-power posturing that spun out of control into a massive war before anyone knew it.

the First withe war is completely forgotten in America. it is so overshadowed by the next world war, that America has forgotten the only major reason the Germans, French, and Brits even bothered attempting to broker a peace without "FiNaL ViCtOrY", but rather through negotiations.

and yet, at the end of the war, after saving most of Europe from another several years of war (the Russian Revolution itself is strangely not connected to WW1, Historiographically,
because the Western powers made peace, and while the Bosheviks didn't do themselves a SINGLE favor until 1941, they should've been brought into the negotiable, ALONG WITH THE WHITES, to negotiate a FULL end to the war,.

America was given little to no say in the outcome of the Paris Treaty of Versaille negotiations, despite being the only reason the war in the west ended, in the West at least. yet, all pur prophetic warnings went he unheeded by is m practicality every European except for Winston Chirchill, and just 21 years later, involving many of the same figures that fought in WW1, WW2 broke out for more-or-less the sand reasons as the first one, albeit with Hitler as the inky personality truly bent on war, as opposed to the many monarchies in Europe in 1914 jumping excitedly until the war, without even knowing why they were fighting.