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General John Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing last week presented My Experiences in the World War, in book form, to take its place beside the military memoirs of Foch, Haig, Hindenburg, Ludendorff.? Dedicating his volume to the Unknown Soldier, the only commander since George Washington to lead a U. S. Army throughout an entire war focused his full attention upon the military contribution of the U. S. to Allied victory. Outside the range of his crisp impersonal narrative are the billions of dollars, the tons of supplies and food with which the U. S. bolstered up France and Britain after...
...Paris last week Mme Joffre, widow of the Marshal, revealed that she recently refused an appeal made to her by the widow of Marshal Foch...
...Foch had heard (as who has not?) that Papa Joffre's soon-to-be-published memoirs contain scorching paragraphs about her husband, the Generalissimo. Calling upon Widow Joffre, Widow Foch begged: "Do let some impartial person read your husband's memoirs before they are published! Surely it would be best for France-best for patriotic reasons-that some passages be removed. Is there not glory enough for both our husbands as things...
...General Foch in his memoirs describes the retreat of the 5th Army under General Gough as follows: "On the north the British Army maintained in general its positions, but it was quite otherwise with General Cough's Fifth Army. Along almost the whole of its front, it was swept away, its right in particular being thrown back west of Saint-Quentin up to the edge of the Crozat Canal. On . . . the 22nd, this army, badly shaken, retreated toward the Somme. An extraordinary incident here took place -one only to be explained by the contagion which spread from the confused...
...Memoirs of Marshal Foch. Translated by Col. T. Bentley Mott; Doubleday Doran...