Published by The American Legion, 1930
Seller: West Coast Bookseller, Moorpark, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: As New.
Published by The American Legion, Indianapolis, IN, 1930
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: fair to good. 356 + 170 app., Vol. VII only, illus., color maps, footnotes, appendices, chronology, bibliography, index, statistics, front board weak. Small tears/chips in lower margins of several pages, boards somewhat scratched and spotted, spine slightly faded, some wear to spine edges and board corners. Simple border design on boards--facsimile of the original on the official German copy of the Versailles Peace Treaty. Subtitled: A comprehensive and readable source record of the world's great war, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narratives in the actual words of the chief officials and most eminent leaders; presenting documents from government archives and other authoritative sources, with outline narratives, indices, chronologies, and courses of reading on sociological movements and individual national activities. The first portion of this volume (pp. 1-356) covers reconstruction and the peace treaty (1918-1919). The second portion of this volume contains the "Official Summary of America's Part in the War, " including The War with Germany: A Statistical Summary by Leonard P. Ayres, chief of the statistics branch of the General Staff; Some International Comparisons by Diagrams and Tables; and 16 pages of color maps.