02311cam a2200349 i 4500 329617129 TxAuBib 20171002120000.0 151119s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015044665 9781501117893 hardcover 1501117890 hardcover 9781501117916 1501117912 TxAuBib rda 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. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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.