The unknowns: the untold story of America's unknown soldier and WWI's most decorated heroes who brought him home
Celebrated military historian and bestselling author Patrick O'Donnell illuminates the saga behind the creation of the Tomb itself and recreates the moving ceremony during which it was consecrated and the eight Body Bearers, and the sergeant who had chosen the one body to be interred, solemnly...
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Zusammenfassung: | Celebrated military historian and bestselling author Patrick O'Donnell illuminates the saga behind the creation of the Tomb itself and recreates the moving ceremony during which it was consecrated and the eight Body Bearers, and the sergeant who had chosen the one body to be interred, solemnly united. Brilliantly researched, vividly told, The Unknowns is a timeless tale of heeding the calls of duty and brotherhood, and humanizes the most consequential event of the twentieth century, which still casts a shadow a century later. -- |
Beschreibung: | Printed simultaneously in Canada. -- Title page verso |
Beschreibung: | xxii, 362 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen, Karten |
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Preface xiii
Prologue xvii
Dramatis Personae xxi
I AMERICA GOES TO WAR, 1917
Chapter 1: Getting Over There 3
Chapter 2: The Kaiser’s Killing Machine 12
Chapter 3: James Delaney and the SS Campana 16
Chapter 4: Q Ships and Depth Charges: Das Boot 24
II BUILDUP, 1917-1918
Chapter 5: Pershing and the AEF 41
Chapter 6: Ernest August Janson: First to Fight 56
Chapter 7: Trench Warfare 81
III DEFENDING PARIS, 1918
Chapter 8: Belleau Wood 91
Chapter 9: Hill 142 98
Chapter 10: “The Marines Are Fighting Like Trojans” 111
Chapter 11: Edward Younger: Vaux 121
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Contents
TV COUNTEROFFENSIVE, 1918
Chapter 12: Turning Point: Soissons 129
V BY SEA, 1918
Chapter 13: Charles Leo O’Connor: USS Mount Vernon 147
Chapter 14: James Delaney: Brandenburg 159
VI OFFENSIVE, 1918
Chapter 15: St. Mihiel 167
Chapter 16: Thomas Daniel Saunders: Breaching the Wire 172
Chapter 17: The Skies Above and Victory 183
Chapter 18: “A Natural Fortress ... Beside Which 188
the Wilderness in Which Grant Fought Lee Was
a Park”: The Meuse-Argonne
Chapter 19: Harry Taylor and the Wild West Division 194
Chapter 20: The Charge of the Light Brigade at Gesnes 200
Chapter 21: Mission Impossible: Blanc Mont Ridge 209
Chapter 22: Woodfill of the Regulars 222
Chapter 2 3: “I Got a Few” 234
Chapter 24: Louis Razga: The Big Guns 244
VII THE FINAL BATTLES AND COMING HOME
Chapter 2 5: The Final Push 251
Chapter 26: The Bridge 261
Chapter 27: Occupation 267
Contents
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VIII AMERICA’S UNKNOWN SOLDIER
Chapter 28: The Unknown 285
Chapter 29: Coming Home 295
Afterword: The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier 311
Epilogue 317
Acknowledgments 325
Notes 327
Index 351
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