A Couple of old WW I titles that are favorites of mine, and in some way influenced my thinking.
The Battle for Europe: 1918 by H. Essame. Charles Scribners Son's, New York, 1972. 216pp, Index.
A nice short "popular" account of the time, I probably bought and read it in 1976 (It still has an Edward McKay price sticker inside, a bookstore in Fayetteville, North Carolina). Covers the period from the Kaiser's Offensive to the end of the war, mostly from the British perspective. The author himself and his viewpoint are much closer to how the participants probably viewed the events than anything you will find in current "Mainstream" literature about the period.
The Unknown Soldiers: Black American Troops in World War I. by Arthur E. Barbeau and Florette Henri. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1974. 279 pages, Index, Illus.
Another "Find"; I am not sure when I acquired this, probably as a mail order discount book (1981?), but it is not marked as a remainder. This book certainly influenced my thinking on the subject, I hesitate to call it an "Early" work, but it is not loaded with the scholarly analysis modern titles tend to be lumbered with. Worth seeking out because when it was written, these events were within living memory, closer to the authors than WW II is to most people living now. Certainly by this time ever National Guard and Army Reserve center had an "Army Heritage" poster featuring the (Black) 369th Infantry in action.
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