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Coffman, Edward McKenzie was born on January 27, 1929 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, United States. Son of Howard Beverly and Mada (Wright) Coffman.
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The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I by Edward M. Coffman. UP of Kentucky,1998
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( In 1898 the American Regular Army was a small frontier...)
In 1898 the American Regular Army was a small frontier constabulary engaged in skirmishes with Indians and protesting workers. Forty-three years later, in 1941, it was a large modern army ready to wage global war against the Germans and the Japanese. In this definitive social history of America's standing army, military historian Edward Coffman tells how that critical transformation was accomplished. Coffman has spent years immersed in the official records, personal papers, memoirs, and biographies of regular army men, including such famous leaders as George Marshall, George Patton, and Douglas MacArthur. He weaves their stories, and those of others he has interviewed, into the story of an army which grew from a small community of posts in China and the Philippines to a highly effective mechanized ground and air force. During these years, the U.S. Army conquered and controlled a colonial empire, military staff lived in exotic locales with their families, and soldiers engaged in combat in Cuba and the Pacific. In the twentieth century, the United States entered into alliances to fight the German army in World War I, and then again to meet the challenge of the Axis Powers in World War II. Coffman explains how a managerial revolution in the early 1900s provided the organizational framework and educational foundation for change, and how the combination of inspired leadership, technological advances, and a supportive society made it successful. In a stirring account of all aspects of garrison life, including race relations, we meet the men and women who helped reconfigure America's frontier army into a modern global force.
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The War to End All Wars is considered by many to be the best single account of America's participation in World War I. Covering famous battles, the birth of the air force, naval engagements, the War Department, and experiences of the troops, this indispensable volume is again available in paperback for students and general readers.
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One of the most important works of military history published in the last decade, The Old Army is the only comprehensive study of the people who made up the "garrison world" in the peacetime intervals between the War for Independence and the Spanish-American War.Drawing on diaries, letters, and other primary documents, Edward M. Coffman vividly recreates the harsh, often lonely life of men, collected mostly from the streets of Northern cities, for whom enlistment was "a leap in the dark. . . a choice of evils."He pays special attention to the roles of women and children, as well as black Americans, and to the development of military professionalism. From the testimony of those who lived it, Coffman traces the evolution of the American Army from "the days of small things"-of limited resources and downright hardship-to the modern military age that began at the turn of the century.
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Campaign and battle histories of the role of the United States army in World War I are plentiful, and yet historians have all but ignored the crucial administrative and institutional developments which made possible that army's contribution to the Allied war effort. This new study by Edward M. Coffman does much to restore a true perspective. Concentrating on the important and controversial career of General Peyton C. March as Army Chief of Staff from 1918 to 1921, he uses the vehicle of biography to achieve a fascinating study of the military arm of the United States government at a time of profound change and drastic reorganization.
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Military historians are, quite rightly, concerned with war, but the Army does not simply cease to exist between the treaty ending one conflict and the opening guns of the next. Some Americans, however, have thought otherwise. Soon after the Civil War, when a colonel was introduced to a cultivated woman from a large Eastern city, she was astonished: "What, a colonel of the Army? Why, I supposed the Army was disbanded at the end of the war!" The people who made up the "garrison world" during the peacetime intervals between the War for Independence and the Spanish-American War are the subject of this book. Who were these officers and soldiers? They were men collected mostly from the streets of Northern cities, men for whom enlistment was "a leap in the dark...a choice of evils," and men like one lieutenant who write in 1856: "I like the wild excitement of such a life and do not think anything would tempt me to resign my commission for the monotonous routine of civil life." Although the occasional Indian war made headlines, the unrelenting labor of building and maintaining frontier outposts occupied most of their days. Drawing on diaries, letters, and other primary documents, Edward M. Coffman vividly recreates the harsh, often lonely, garrison life. He pays special attention to the roles of women and children, as well as black Americans, and to the development of military professionalism. Through the eyes of those who lived it, Coffman traces the evolution of the American Army from "the days of small things"--of limited resources and downright hardship--to the modern military age that began at the turn of the century.
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Military historian university professor
Coffman, Edward McKenzie was born on January 27, 1929 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, United States. Son of Howard Beverly and Mada (Wright) Coffman.
Bachelor of Arts, Univercity Kentucky, 1951; Master of Arts, University Kentucky, 1955; Doctor of Philosophy (Southern Faculty fellow), U. Kentucky, 1959.
He served as an Infantry officer in the United States. Army from 1951-1953, serving in Japan and of Korea. He taught at Memphis State University for two years and the University of Wisconsin at Madison (1961-1992). He was Forrest Pogue"s research assistant on the first volume of his biography of George C. Marshall.
Coffman spent a year each as a visiting professor at Kansas State University, United States. Military Academy, United States. Air Force Academy, Army War College, and the Army Command and General Staff College.
Coffman has served on the History Book Club advisory committee since 1987. He served on the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (1972-1976) and the Department of the Army History Committee for six years and as chair for an additional four years.
Coffman has received a Southern Faculty Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was named a University of Kentucky Distinguished Graduate and the Wisconsin State Assembly gave him a citation for his contributions as a teacher and historian.
The Society for Military History gave him the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for his contribution to military history and the distinguished book award for The Regulars.
He has published numerous articles since 1956. In addition to research in secondary scholarly works, he depended on unpublished and published memoirs and records as well as oral history and correspondence, particularly in his books on World War I and his most recent book about the Regular Army. His research files have been donated to the George C. Marshall Foundation.
(Campaign and battle histories of the role of the United S...)
(One of the most important works of military history publi...)
(Military historians are, quite rightly, concerned with wa...)
( In 1898 the American Regular Army was a small frontier...)
(The War to End All Wars is considered by many to be the b...)
(The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience...)
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(Easton Press 1990. Very good condition. Unread. No bookpl...)
While an undergraduate member of the Reserve Officer Training Corps (Reserve Officers Training Corps), he was a member of the National Society of Pershing Rifles as well as Scabbard and Blade. A member of the Society for Military History since 1956, he has held several offices including president He is a member of the United Kingdom Phi Beta Kappa chapter and is an Honorary Graduate of the Army Command and General Staff College.
Married Anne Nelson Rouse, June 30, 1955. Children: Anne Wright, Lucia Page, Edward McKenzie.