The unknowns The untold story of America's unknown soldier and WWI's most decorated heroes who brought him home
Book - 2018
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. --
- Subjects
- Published
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New York :
Atlantic Monthly Press
2018.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition
- Item Description
- Printed simultaneously in Canada. -- Title page verso
- Physical Description
- 362 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-349) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780802128331
- Preface
- Prologue
- Dramatis Personae
- I. America Goes to War, 1917
- Chapter 1. Getting Over There
- Chapter 2. The Kaiser's Killing Machine
- Chapter 3. James Delaney and the SS Campana
- Chapter 4. Q Ships and Depth Charges: Das Boot
- II. Buildup, 1917-1918
- Chapter 5. Pershing and the AEF
- Chapter 6. Ernest August Janson: First to Fight
- Chapter 7. Trench Warfare
- III. Defending paris, 1918
- Chapter 8. Belleau Wood
- Chapter 9. Hill 142
- Chapter 10. "The Marines Are Fighting Like Trojans"
- Chapter 11. Edward Younger: Vaux
- IV. Counteroffensive, 1918
- Chapter 12. Turning Point: Soissons
- V. By Sea, 1918
- Chapter 13. Charles Leo O'Connor: USS Mount Vernon
- Chapter 14. James Delaney: Brandenburg
- VI. Offensive, 1918
- Chapter 15. St. Mihiel
- Chapter 16. Thomas Daniel Saunders: Breaching the Wire
- Chapter 17. The Skies Above and Victory
- Chapter 18. "A Natural Fortress ... Beside Which the Wilderness in Which Grant Fought Lee Was a Park": The Meuse-Argonne
- Chapter 19. Harry Taylor and the Wild West Division
- Chapter 20. The Charge of the Light Brigade at Gesnes
- Chapter 21. Mission Impossible: Blanc Mont Ridge
- Chapter 22. Woodfill of the Regulars
- Chapter 23. "I Got a Few"
- Chapter 24. Louis Razga: The Big Guns
- VII. The final battles and coming home
- Chapter 25. The Final Push
- Chapter 26. The Bridge
- Chapter 27. Occupation
- VIII. America's Unknown Soldier
- Chapter 28. The Unknown
- Chapter 29. Coming Home
- Afterword: The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
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