Dear Fellow WWI Enthusiast,

As someone interested in the history of WWI, be sure to add David Homsher's extraordinary work, American Battlegrounds of World War I Then and Now--A Battlefield Guide; Enter the Yanks: the Battle of Château-Thierry to your collection.

How much is lost to history when one generation loses the history of the preceding generations? How many young people today understand what all those monuments represent? How can we tell our children and their children what a soldier's sacrifice actually means? How can we stop history from repeating itself generation after generation? By not letting people forget their past. In this, the author has a sincere and personal commitment to telling the story of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) of 1917-1919. He has grand children who need to know.

After touring the battlefield sites as they are today and relating the "now" with the "then," David Homsher has created a solid work of historical context. By adding the actual diary entries of the soldiers who were there, from the generals down to the doughboys, he recreates the actual event "as it happened" in their own words.

Hundreds of battlefield photos, including rare never-before-published photos of the German soldiers, help explain the actions of war. Maps relate the conflict to the area being traveled.

Whether you are an armchair traveler, or prefer to walk the actual sites, he acts as your guide within this book. Alongside the stories of the soldiers are the photographs from the era, descriptions of monuments, and directions. From Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport straight out to the battlefields, Homsher gives meticulous directions on how to get to each site, what to expect, where to park, how far to walk.

Battleground Productions offers David Homsher's first 'then-and-now' guidebook to the battlefields of the American Expeditionary Forces in France and Belgium. The book retails for $29.95. It is 304 pages in length, filled with 285 photographs, many of them 'then-andnow,' 58 drawings and illustrations and 22 maps, an index and bibliography.