Soldier-Scholars: Higher Education in the American Expeditionary Forces, 1917-1919, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 221)

by Alfred E. Cornebise and E. J. Aiton

A study of the educational opportunities offered after WW1 to Amer. soldiers of the Amer. Expeditionary Forces (AEF). Some stayed in Europe and studied art, attended classes at the Sorbonne, took medical courses at London's Fellowship of Med., read law at the Inns of Court, enrolled in veterinary classes at the Univ. of Edinburgh, and studied French culture and language at numerous French univ. and inst. About 10,000 men were involved in these programs...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087169221X
• ISBN13: 9780871692214
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 200 Pages