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Walker, William T.,.
Betrayal at Little Gibraltar :
a German fortress, a treacherous American general, and the battle to end World War I /
William Walker.
First Scribner hardcover edition.
New York :
Scribner,
[2016]
xiii, 447 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
illustrations, maps ;
24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references(pages 417-429) and index.
Prologue: words tongued with fire -- Part I. The stakes -- "Horrors from the abyss" -- Harry Parkin's affidavit -- Little Gibraltar of the Western Front -- "Do you wish to take part in the battle?" -- "This appalling proposition" -- "Feeling like crusaders" -- Training for disaster -- "An ominous, dread inspiring place" -- Part II. Battle and betrayal -- Over the top and into a trap -- "The 79th is holding up the entire First Army" -- "Bayonet and rifle butt, pistol and trench knife" -- "All America is behind us" -- "Regardless of cost" -- The cost of "regardless" -- Relief and disgrace -- Into the cyclone...once again -- Redemption on Corn Willy Hill -- Making good...at last -- Part III. The war after the war -- Controlling the narrative -- Bullard, Bjornstad, and Booth -- Betrayal at Little Gibraltar -- Denkmal: remembering the lost doughboys -- Epilogue: "Some could, some could not, shake off misery".
20171002.
Bullard, Robert Lee,
1861-1947
Military leadership.
United States
Army
Infantry Division, 79th
History
World War, 1914-1918.
Argonne, Battle of the, France, 1918.
World War, 1914-1918
Campaigns
Meuse River Valley.
Montfaucon (Meuse, France)
History, Military
20th century.