Rental meant to fight in world war i. He examines the regiments leadership, its actions in the field of battle, and the challenges the men faced following the war. This is an hour and a half. Now, gives me great pleasure to introduce the man of the hour, jeffrey t. Sammons. A professor in the department of history at new york university, where he has taught since 1989, Rutgers Research fellow at Rutgers University camden and completed his critically acclaimedded beyond the ring role of boxing in American Society in 2001. Sammons was awarded a fellowship by the Shomberg Center of research. And received a National Endownment humanities in support of harlem rattlers and the great war. Sammons is a native of bridge ton, new jersey, earned his bachelors in history at rutgers college, where he graduated magna cum laude, and elected to identify Phi Beta Kappa in 1971. He earned a masters agreeing in history from Tufts University and a ph. D in American History in 1982. In 198384, he was a pos
from the book i m going to read a little here and there and explain what happened in the book. .. does anyone know how to do a split screen? i apologize. put it under the window. there? there you go. [inaudible conversations] the war started in 1914. the fascination of ferdinand of austria. austria declared war on serbia. germany was austria s ally. the germans were hoping to surround paris quickly. in about a week, the casualties equaled the number of characters in the civil war, the american civil war. both sides met, dug in tried to outflank each other, until there was a trench line. about 400 miles along. originally they thought the war would be over in a few months. in the battlefield there were sort of out of date combat strategies. they were having cavalry charges into artillery fire and men kicking soccer balls into machine guns. the u.s. sentiment was to stay out of the war. wilson was elected on a campaign slogan saying he kept us out of the war to compare