Otis W. Leader: The Ideal American Doughboy Vienna by David Fromkin

by David Fromkin

often contradicted by his next action or utterance

focusing on the three major battles at Cantigny

revolutions in racial and gender equality

A Very Long Engagement is a mystery

Otis W. Leader: The Ideal American Doughboy Vienna by David FromkinDescription By Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer Paperback Amid the growing tensions of WWI, Otis W. Leader a thirty five year old widower of Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, and Irish descent left behind three children, his job, and his home in Oklahoma to enlist in the Army. Assigned to the First Division of the American Expeditionary Forces, he was chosen to represent the "Ideal American Doughboy," and lived up to that title, earning honors like the Croix de