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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ing of the Atlantic wouldhave been In vain. There are only a few men, after all, whoknow the whole story of Americas part inthe war. Those who know it best are themembers and attaches of the General Staff.It is a happy circumstance that one of these.Major Frederick Palmer, is an experiencedwriter, trained to observe and report facts,and particularly to make military facts in-telligible to the general public. His newbook, America in France,^ Is not onlyreadable and Inspiring; it is authentic, fromcover to cover. Major Palmer went withGeneral Pershing to France in the earlysummer of 1917 and remained on duty untilthe signing of the armistice. As a corre-spondent who had witnessed every war fortwenty years, he was keenly alive to the de-velopments of the greatest of all wars, andit may be assumed that very little of whatwas going on at headquarters escaped hisobservation. Because Major Palmers book pictures •America In France. By Frederick Palmer. Dodd, Mead and Company. 479 pp. $1.75.
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@ Committee on Public Information GENERAL PERSHING ADDRESSING THE WINNERS OFTHE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS IN FRANCE General Pershings activities in France moreadequately than anything else that has beenpublished, we reproduce several passages thatgive intimate glimpses of the C.-In-C.about his daily tasks. When General Pershing was selected tocommand all the land forces of the UnitedStates operating in Continental Europeand in the United Kingdom of-Great Britainand Ireland, to quote from the official or-ders, most Americans knew of him only asthe commander of the Mexican expeditionwith a background of successful administra-tion in the Philippines and a promotion byPresident Roosevelt over the heads of as-piring army officers. They did not think of 57 58 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS him as a much traveled man of the worldwho would be as much at home in Paris asin the jungles of Mindanao, where the na-tives called him Datto. Major Palmerpresents this side of Pershings character andr

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