Gary Mead was a journalist for ten years with the Financial Times and has worked extensively with the BBC, before which he lectured in English literature in Poland. He is the author of the Odyssey Illustrated Guide to South Africa.
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More than three million American men, many of them volunteers, joined the AEF in the first twenty months of US involvement in the First World War. Of these, over 50,000 were killed on European soil. These were the Doughboys, the young men recruited... SEE MORE