Lest The Ages Forget

Lest The Ages ForgetDescription by Derek Donovan Hardcover This new edition of "Lest the Ages Forget: Kansas City's Liberty Memorial" tells the story of the national monument to World War I, updated to include the creation of the prestigious National World War I Museum. In this industrious agricultural metropolis, a group of community leaders led an ambitious campaign in 1919 to raise money for the construction of a lasting tribute in stone for the brave men and women

Nothing Less Than War provides a comprehensive examination of America's internal political climate and its changing international role during the seminal period of 1914—1917

choosing to read history at Oxford and going on to become an archaeologist

coming through a ‘great national emergency’

offers her a chance to speak out for those who cannot

This was a war of land campaigns

it became obvious that these long-established notions of the Navy’s invincibility might no longer be realistic

and that others became unexpectedly important

America wanted in

and submarines

radical reconfigurations of socioeconomic

devastating: over 21 million military wounded

letters of the aces