{"id":1262,"date":"2026-05-30T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T06:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2026-07-07T19:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:27:19","slug":"rhineland-occupation-book-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/30\/rhineland-occupation-book-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhineland Occupation Monograph Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long-time contributor Jerry Miller has authored a monograph: <em>American Occupation of the Rhineland 1918-1923<\/em>. The monograph (7th publication of the new series) has just been published by the Society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NOTE<\/strong> that members of the MPHS who have specified a desired format (paper book vs PDF e-document) will be notified when their copy becomes available. Non-members,  see link below for Amazon book ordering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On December 1, 1918, having advanced slowly to allow the German army to retreat before them, Allied forces including nearly a quarter of a million American troops of the newly-formed Third Army, crossed the German border. Each of the major European armies had its own zone of control West of the Rhine, with a bridgehead extending 30 kilometers East of the principal crossing in each of the respective zones. The Americans continued to occupy their zone in the Rhineland through late January, 1923.<br><br>This monograph explores the history of the US Occupation of the Rhineland through postal material &#8212; envelopes and postcards sent by American military and civilian personnel in the occupied area &#8212; plus a small selection of non-postal ephemera. It will be especially useful to postal historians but also to people interested in this phase of German-American relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additional information available at <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/MONO\/mo_mono7\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this link.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-amazon wp-block-embed-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"American Occupation of the Rhineland 1918-1923\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"clipboard-write\" style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?asin=B0GYFVRQ49\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-time contributor Jerry Miller has authored a monograph: American Occupation of the Rhineland 1918-1923. The monograph (7th publication of the new series) has just been published by the Society. NOTE that members of the MPHS who have specified a desired format (paper book vs PDF e-document) will be notified when their copy becomes available. Non-members, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/30\/rhineland-occupation-book-now-available\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read the full post &rarr;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Rhineland Occupation Monograph Now Available&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[167,138,94,104,59,170,172,8,33],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-amazon","tag-book","tag-history","tag-jerry-miller","tag-postal-history","tag-publish","tag-rhineland-occupation-2","tag-society","tag-wwi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1304,"href":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}