Potomac Booksan imprint of the University of Nebraska Press,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
xviii, 286 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The life of Napoleon -- Corporal Harry S. Truman -- Camp Doniphan -- "No trifling test of patriotism" -- Jacobson & Trumanheimer -- "Wondering if we'd be heroes or corpses" -- "Dizzy D" -- "Un secteur tranquil" -- Code name "Chicago" -- First blood -- 125 miles of mud and rain -- The Meuse-Argonne -- "Go to hell-- but I'll try!" -- Scratch two Boche batteries -- Counterattack at Exermont -- "Frenchmen buried in my front yard and Huns in the back" -- "It's over, over there" -- "Full and immediate separation."
Summary:
Depicts the military career of Harry S. Truman, the future thirty-third president of the United States, during World War I.
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