Unnamed American Tourists and Expatriates
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2986
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Unnamed American Tourists and Expatriates
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Unnamed American Tourists and Expatriates
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
What Gavin Stevens in "Knight's Gambit" somewhat facetiously calls the "second" "American Expeditionary Force in France" that "began to land in Europe in 1919" are the many Americans who toured or moved to Europe in the years after the First World War (256). The "first" A.E.F., of course, were the one million soldiers in the U.S. Army who landed in France to join the British and French forces fighting Germany; they had returned home by 1919.