The Amaroc News: The Daily Newspaper of the American Forces in Germany, 1919-1923

by Alfred E. Cornebise

"Hell, heaven, or Hoboken by Christmas" vowed Black Jack Pershing when the Novem­ber armistice silenced the Great War, but in fact American forces occupied the Rhineland from 1918 to 1923: it was to inform and enter­tain those troops on foreign soil that the Amaroc News was created in 1919.

The audience of the Amaroc (American Army of Occupation) News was the Ameri­can doughboy, the soldier without...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809310015
• ISBN13: 9780809310012
• Release Date: September 1981
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"