The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America (Neiberg) Section-Quilts/Sewing across the Confederacy

across the Confederacy

Gold plated

albeit uncomfortable

became a place of inexplicable horrors

Bell also chronicles the effects of disease on the civilian population

The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America (Neiberg) Section-Quilts/Sewing across the Confederacyby Michael S. Neibert When war broke out in Europe in August of 1914, it seemed, to observers in the United States, the height of madness. The Old World and its empires were tearing each other apart, and while most Americans blamed the Germans, pitied the Belgians, and felt kinship with the Allies, they wanted no part in the carnage. Two years into war President Woodrow Wilson won re election by pledging to keep out of the conflict. Yet by the spring