Otis W. Leader: The Ideal American Doughboy

Otis W. Leader: The Ideal American DoughboyDescription By Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer Paperback Amid the growing tensions of WWI, Otis W. Leader a thirty five year old widower of Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, and Irish descent left behind three children, his job, and his home in Oklahoma to enlist in the Army. Assigned to the First Division of the American Expeditionary Forces, he was chosen to represent the "Ideal American Doughboy," and lived up to that title, earning honors like the Croix de

Here is the story of the fifty-billion-dollar war that gave birth to the Selective Service Act

under Field Marshal Haig

observed firsthand some of the Great War’s fiercest fighting

As a teenager in Chicago

nearly one million lost their lives and over two million were wounded

One last 12-inch gun dreadnought entered service in 1914

they had to give voice to what they felt about war and life

John Horne and Len Smith

and this is not a coincidence

and with finely wrought characters drawn from the forgotten archives of American history

Dubinskaya’s autobiographical novel of life in the Russian army marked the first major work published by a female World War I soldier in the Soviet Union

he received many military honors and marched in the Victory Parade