John J. Pershing

John J. Pershing is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making and court politics and dynastic power. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.

In Jeff Shaara’s To the Last Man, on the ground, French commanders struggle to hold an exhausted army together while the United States prepares to send an independent force under John J. Pershing rather than disperse American troops among Allied formations.