The unknowns the untold story of America's unknown soldier and WWI's most decorated heroes who brought him home
"The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is sacred ground at Arlington National Cemetery. Originally constructed in 1921 to hold one of the thousands of unidentified American soldiers lost in World War I, it now also contains unknowns from World War II and the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and receives millions...
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New York :
Atlantic Monthly Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- I: America goes to war, 1917. Getting over there ; The Kaiser's killing machine ; James Delaney and the SS Campana ; Q ships and depth charges: Das Boot
- II: Buildup, 1917-1918. Pershing and the AEF ; Ernest August Janson: first to fight ; Trench warfare
- III: Defending Paris, 1918. Belleau Wood ; Hill 142 ; "The Marines are fighting like Trojans" ; Edward Younger: Vaux
- IV: Counteroffensive, 1918. Turning point: Soissons
- V: By sea, 1918. Charles Leo O'Connor: USS Mount Vernon ; James Delaney: Brandenberg
- VI: Offensive, 1918. St: Mihiel ; Thomas Daniel Saunders: breaching the wire ; The skies above and victory ; "A natural fortress...beside which the wilderness in which Grant fought Lee was a park": the Meuse-Argonne ; Harry Taylor and the Wild West Division ; The charge of the Light Brigade at Gesnes ; Mission impossible: Blanc Mont Ridge ; Woodfill of the Regulars ; "I got a few" ; Louis Razga: the big guns
- VII: The final battles and coming home. The final push ; The bridge ; Occupation
- VIII: America's unknown soldier. The unknown ; Coming home
- Afterword: the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
