| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 33.2

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John W. Barry. The Midwest Goes to War: The 32^nd Division in the Great War. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2007. Pp. 184. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Paper, $45.00.
In The Midwest Goes to War, John W. Barry examines the United States' participation in the First World War through the actions of a single division, the 32^nd. The War Department organized the division in the summer of 1917 using men from the Michigan and Wisconsin National Guards. Michigan contributed more than eight thousand men to the new unit. Organized into two infantry regiments, a machine-gun battalion and a field-artillery regiment, the Michiganians supplied nearly half the division's combat power although they accounted for only one-third of the division's total strength.	1
The division first entered combat in June 1918, and the men fought through three hard campaigns before November. The 32^nd Division gained a reputation for effectiveness and élan. Charles Mangin, a French general, was so impressed that he dubbed the 32^ndLes Terribles. The division's exceptional combat performance earned it the right to lead one of the American columns into Germany after the armistice.	. . .

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