Events

Public Program, Author Talk

My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War

Andrew Carroll, the Center for American War Letters at Chapman University
Saturday, May 20, 2017, 2:00PM - 3:00PM
Registration required; no fee

General Pershing, who led all of the American troops in Europe during World War I, surmounted enormous obstacles to turn the U.S. army into a modern fighting force, but he was often perceived as a harsh, humorless, and wooden leader. My Fellow Soldiers draws on a trove of little-known and newly uncovered letters and diaries to create a vivid and moving account of the American experience in the war. As part of his “Million Letters Campaign,” Carroll will also discuss extraordinary stories and letters from other wars.

This program is FREE.