Deutsch-Amerikaner im Ersten Weltkrieg: US-Politik und nationale Identitäten im Mittleren Westen (German Americans in World War I: U.S. politics and national identities in the Midwest)

Deutsch-Amerikaner im Ersten Weltkrieg: US-Politik und nationale Identitäten im Mittleren Westen (German Americans in World War I: U.S. politics and national identities in the Midwest). By Katja Wüstenbecker. (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2007. 428 pp. euro56.00, ISBN 978-3-515-08975-3.) In German.

Katja Wüstenbecker's book on German Americans during World War I is both a survey presentation and a detailed research monograph on a topic that has attracted some excellent historians on both sides of the Atlantic. The book does not deeply engage that historiography but does add important parts to a story that has not drawn the attention it deserves. The author tells the history of German Americans during World War I with a focus on the Midwest in a straightforward, mostly chronological fashion.

Wüstenbecker's main contribution...