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Author:

Hernon, Peter, 1947- author.

Title:

The great rescue : American heroes, an iconic ship, and the race to save Europe in WWI / Peter Hernon.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

x, 350 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Leviathan (Steamship)
World War, 1914-1918--Naval operations, American.
World War, 1914-1918--Transportation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Trapped in New York -- "All the best pictures of the ruins" -- "You will never run her" -- Voting no to war -- Monster of the deep -- The general and the mademoiselle -- Dead in the water -- "I am not joking" -- Missed rendezvous -- "An admiring and jealous white audience" -- A new skipper -- "The Tuscania's been hit" -- Steaming for "Rendezvous A" -- Two dead nurses -- The orphans of Brest -- A promise of help--and Micheline's kisses -- POWs and icebergs -- Lessons in trench warfare -- Lost in the fog -- Hand grenades and Brownings -- "Blitzkatarrh," or "Flanders fever" -- An even better target -- U-boat attack -- "Don't lose hope--I beg you" -- Submarines and the sky pilot -- "Another way of spelling the word 'American'" -- 40 hommes/8 chevaux -- The king of gasses -- Two men overboard -- Visiting the front with FDR -- A near-death experience -- Moving up to the front -- "Everyone attack" -- Fear of a "flu trip" -- A bad wound -- The eve of the flu voyage -- "Kamerad! Kamerad!" -- Pandemic at sea -- "Funny little smile" -- Burials at sea -- The U-boats go home -- The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month -- Partying in Liverpool -- A sailor named Bogart -- Journey of the survivors -- A famous shoreline -- "Amid a silence that hurt" -- Farewell to arms -- "I have made plans for us".

ISBN:

0062433873
9780062433879
0062433865
9780062433862

OCLC:

(OCoLC)979534088

LCCN:

2017012596

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