Reading the Great War: June 2014

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Arlington at 150: WW1 Tour

Not a reading thing, but I took a WW1-centric tour of Arlington as part of the cemetery's 150th anniversary. Here are a few pics:

Meuse-Argonne Cross

General Tasker Bliss, Chief of Staff of the Army during the war

GEN Pershing, Commander AEF

CPL Frank Buckles, last surviving WW1 Vet (looking towards GEN Pershing)

SGT Edward Younger - he selected the unknown soldier for WW1

LTG James Harbord, USA, Commanded the Marines at Belleau Wood

LTC Charles Pierce - in charge of repatriating remains of U.S. forces back to the U.S.

Books Completed

13. The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
12. The Marne, 1914: The Opening Battle of World War I and the Battle that Changed the World by Holger Herwig
11. The Origins of the First World War by William Mulligan
10. The Arming of Europe and the Making of the First World War by David G. Herrmann
9. The Origins of the First World War by Ruth Henig
8. The War Plans of the Great Powers, 1880-1914 edited by Paul M. Kennedy
7. Decisions for War: 1914-1917 by Richard Hamilton and Roger Herwig
6. The First World War: An Illustrated History by A. J. P. Taylor
5. The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
4. Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War by Max Hastings
3. The Lions of July: Prelude to War, 1914 by William Jannen
2. Dreadnought by James K. Massie
1. A Short History of World War I by James Stokesbury