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Author:

O'Donnell, Patrick K., 1969- author.

Title:

The unknowns : the untold story of America's unknown soldier and WWI's most decorated heroes who brought him home / Patrick K. O'Donnell.

Edition:

First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.

Publisher:

Atlantic Monthly Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xxii, 362 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

Arlington National Cemetery (Arlington, Va.)
Tomb of the Unknowns (Va.)
War memorials--Virginia.
Sepulchral monuments--Virginia.
World War, 1914-1918--Biography.
United States--History.--History.

Notes:

Printed simultaneously in Canada. -- Title page verso Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-349) and index.

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 -- Turing 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.

Summary:

"When the first Unknown Soldier was laid to rest in Arlington, General John Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Force in WWI, seleted eight of Americas most decorated, battle-hardened veterans to serve as Body Bearers. For the first time ODonnell portrays their heroics on the battlefield one hundred years ago, thereby animating the Tomb by giving voice to all who have served. The Body Bearers appropriately spanned Americas service branches and specialties. Their ranks include a cowboy who relived the charge of the light brigade, an American Indian who heroically breached mountains of German barbed wire, a salty New Englander who dueled a U-boat for hours in a fierce gunfight, a tough New Yorker who sacrificed his body to save his ship, and an indomitable gunner who, though blinded by gas, nonetheless overcame five machine-gun nests. Their stories slip easily into the larger narrative of Americas involvement in the conflict, transporting readers into the midst of dramatic battles during 19171918 that ultimately decided the Great War. Celebrated military historian and bestselling author Patrick ODonnell 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."-- provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0802128335
9780802128331

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1035372898

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