Over There: America in World War I

17 books about the redoubtable Doughboys

In April 1917, America officially entered World War I. Although their involvement in the war was comparatively brief, it was no less significant. The pride, hardships and wide-ranging effects of the war on American soldiers, nurses and loved ones back home are brilliantly brought to life in these books.

1. Company K

William March

2. The Last of the Doughboys

Richard Rubin

3. A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway

4. Illusion of Victory

Thomas Fleming

5. Over Here

David M. Kennedy

6. Johnny Got His Gun

Dalton Trumbo

7. Yanks

John S. D. Eisenhower

8. Toward the Flame: A Memoir of World War I

Hervey Allen

9. American Women in World War I: They Also Served

Lettie Gavin

10. The Zimmerman Telegram

Barbara W Tuchman

11. One of Ours

Willa Cather

12. Over There: The United States in the Great War

Byron Farwell

13. The Sandcastle Girls

Chris Bohjalian

14. The Harlem Hellfighters

Max Brooks

15. America's Great War

Robert H Zieger

16. The Enormous Room

e e cummings

17. Three Soldiers

John dos Passos