Immediately after the armistice was signed in November, 1918, an
American journalist asked Paul von Hindenburg who won the war against
Germany. He was the chief of the German General Staff, co-architect with
Erich Ludendorff of Germany's Eastern Front victories and its nearly
war-winning Western Front offensives, and he did not hesitate in his
answer. "The American infantry," he said. He made it even more specific,
telling the reporter that the final death blow for Germany was delivered
by "the American infantry in the Argonne." The British and the French
often denigrated the American contribution to the war, but they had
begged for US entry into the conflict, and their stake in America's
victory was, if anything, even greater than that of the United States
itself. But How America Won World War I will not litigate the points of
view of Britain and France. The book will accepts as gospel the
assessment of the top German leader whose job it had been to oppose the
Americans directly - that the American infantry won the war - and this
book will tell how the American infantry did it.