World War I: St. Mihiel and Going Home (American Heritage Voices from the Front)

Voices From The Front delivers the past as if it were as urgent as today's mail: listeners will experience a vital battle and the final days of World War One, through the simplicity and honesty, the clarity and color, of letters written from both American and German sons to loved ones back home.

These are not memories in hindsight, but the words, the viewpoints and the emotions of soldiers on the line, tinged with both the immediacy of each situation and the uncertainty of its outcome.

Tape 1: After months of fighting, side by side with the Allied Units, a half-million American soldiers rose up as an independent fighting force at St.

Mihiel in September of 1918. The Germans had held it almost since the start of the war, but in just four days, they were forced into retreat, vanquished under the greatest concentration of artillery fire yet seen in any battle anywhere.

Tape 2: The war was over in November -- and in the process of Going Home, soldiers, sailors and airmen expressed their feelings about the war that changed the world, along with their most vivid experiences in it.