1. Pershing's Crusaders: The American soldiers of the Great War
2. "I want you for the U.S. Army": Motivations, joining up, and conscription
3. "Oh! how I hate to get up in the morning": Life in training camps
4. Learning "The savage game": Training in the United States
5. Of "canned Willie," "Slum," and hard bread: The Doughboy's food
6. Of "tin hats," "Little tanks," and entrenching tools: The Doughboy's clothing and equipment
7. Be It ever so humble: The Doughboys' shelter
8. "Good-bye Broadway, hello France": Life on board a ship for France
9. "The French they have their customs rare, parlez-vous": The Doughboys and the French and British people
10. Of trench guns, sho-shos, and trench knives: The Doughboy's weapons
11. "Oh, the army, the army, the Democratic army ... the Jews, the Wops, the Dutch and Irish cops": Ethnic soldiers and African-Americans in the AEF
12. The ninety-day wonders and Sam Brownes: The officers and NCOs of the AEF
13. After England failed: Tommies, Poilus, and the American soldiers
14. Harsh schoolmasters, devious Huns, and dejected prisoners: The Doughboys and the German soldiers meet
15. Training and trenches in France
16. "Mother, take down your service flag, your son's in the S.O.S.": Life in the services of supply and the rear area
17. "How 'ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm, after they've seen Paree?": Sex, sin, and temptation in the AEF
18. "Sky pilots," "Holy Joes," and the Doughboy's religion
19. The longest hours: Preparing for battle
20. The big show: The Doughboy in combat
21. "The cavalry, the artillery, the lousy engineers": The artillerymen, tankers, combat engineers, and signalmen in battle
22. Restless young men with guns: Morale and discipline
23. CC pills, going west, and the hen-flew-end-ways: The sick, the wounded, and the dead
24. "And we'll all go back 'cause It's over, over here": The Armistice, occupation duty, and returning home.
