Betrayal at Little Gibraltar
Subtitle: a German fortress, a treacherous American general, and the battle to end World War I
By: William Walker
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publisher: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9781501117893; 9781501117916
Subjects: Campaigns; World War, 1914-1918; United States; Military leadership; Military History; Argonne, Battle of the, France, 1918; United States. Army. Infantry Division, 79th; History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: words tongued with fire; title: Part I. The stakes. "Horrors from the abyss" : Major Harry Parkin's affidavit; title: Little Gibraltar of the Western Front; title: "Do you wish to take part in the battle?"; title: "This appalling proposition"; title: "Feeling like crusaders"; title: Training for disaster; title: "An ominous, dread-inspiring place"; title: Part II. Battle and betrayal. Toward Montfaucon and into a trap; title: "The 79th is holding up the entire First Army"; title: "Bayonet and rifle butt, pistol and trench knife"; title: "All America is behind us"; title: "Regardless of cost"; title: The cost of "regardless"; title: Relief and disgrace; title: Into the cyclone...once again; title: Redemption on Corn Willy Hill; title: Making good...at last; title: Part III. The war after the war. Controlling the narrative; title: Bullard, Bjornstad, and Booth; title: Betrayal at Little Gibraltar; title: Denkmal: remembering the lost doughboys; title: Epilogue: "Some could, some could not, shake off misery."