| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.3

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Robert B. Bruce. A Fraternity of Arms: America and France in the Great War. (Modern War Studies.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2003. Pp. xx, 380. $39.95.
Relations between the United States and France are currently at a low point, and not for the first time in the last eighty-five years, starting in 1919 with serious differences over how punitive toward Germany the terms of the treaty ending the Great War should be. Robert B. Bruce provides a timely reminder that relations between the two countries were not always so strained. Indeed, during World War I, not only were the two nations close allies but their soldiers developed a genuine sense of fraternity as they fought side by side in the fields of France.	1
By emphasizing just how closely and successfully integrated American and French military operations were, Bruce makes a valuable contribution toward understanding the nature of the fighting in France. Historians have tended to focus on the disagreements, even antagonisms, evident among the Allied leadership, notably over the "amalgamation issue," whereby French and British leaders urged America to integrate small infantry units or even individual soldiers directly into French and British divisions as the quickest way to bolster sagging Allied strength and morale. The administration of President Woodrow Wilson and the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in France, General John J. Pershing, steadfastly, some say stubbornly, rejected amalgamation, insisting instead that Americans would fight in an American army even though building up such an organization from the small prewar force would take months.	. . .

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