Monographie

Betrayal at Little Gibraltar : a German fortress, a treacherous American general, and the battle to end World War I / William Walker

Type de contenu

• Texte

Type de médiation

• sans médiation

Type de support

• Volume

Titre(s)

• Betrayal at Little Gibraltar : a German fortress, a treacherous American general, and the battle to end World War I / William Walker

Auteur(s)

• Walker, William T.

Publication

• New York (N.Y.) [etc.] : Scribner, 2017

Description matérielle

• 1 vol. (XIII-447 pages-[8] p. de pl.) : ill., cartes ; 22 cm

ISBN

• 978-1-5011-1789-3
• 1-5011-1789-0
• 978-1-5011-1791-6
• 1-5011-1791-2

EAN

• 9781501117916 br.

Classification décimale Dewey

• 940.436

Note sur les bibliographies et les index

• Bibliographie pages 417-429. Index

Note sur le contenu

• 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 Toward Montfaucon 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

Résumé ou extrait

• Présentation de l'éditeur : "A painstakingly researched account of World War I's violent Meuse-Argonne Offensive and the 100-year-old cover-up at its center traces the efforts of AEF Commander-in-Chief John J. Pershing to capture the near-impregnable German Montfaucon and the inside betrayal that cost untold lives."

Sujet - Nom de personne

• Bullard, Robert Lee (1861-1947), général -- Leadership militaire

Sujet - Collectivité

• États-Unis Army. Infantry division. 079.

Sujet - Nom commun

• Offensive Meuse-Argonne (1918)
• Guerre mondiale (1914-1918) -- Opérations militaires -- Meuse, Vallée de la (France)
• Histoire militaire -- Meuse, Vallée de la (France) -- 1900-1945

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