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Betrayal at Little Gibraltar : a German fortress, a treacherous American general, and the battle to end World War I / William Walker.
- Title
- Betrayal at Little Gibraltar : a German fortress, a treacherous American general, and the battle to end World War I / William Walker.
- Author
- Walker, William T., Jr.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2016.
- ©2016
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| Text | Request in advance | D545.A63 W35 2016 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiii, 447 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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,"--NoveList.
- Subject
- Bullard, Robert Lee, 1861-1947 > Military leadership
- Bullard, Robert Lee, 1861-1947
- United States. Infantry Division, 79th > History > World War, 1914-1918
- United States. Infantry Division, 79th
- Argonne, Battle of the (France : 1918)
- World War (1914-1918)
- 1900 - 1999
- Argonne, Battle of the, France, 1918
- World War, 1914-1918 > Campaigns > Meuse River Valley
- Military campaigns
- Command of troops
- Montfaucon (Meuse, France) > History, Military > 20th century
- Europe > Meuse River Valley
- France
- France > Montfaucon (Meuse)
- Genre/Form
- History
- Military history
- History.
- Military history.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-429) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Prologue: words tongued with fire -- Part I. The stakes -- "Horrors from the abyss" -- Major 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 doughboys -- Epilogue: "Some could, some could not, shake off misery."
- ISBN
- 9781501117893
- 1501117890
- 9781501117923 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2015044665
- OCLC
- 930059088
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library