Betrayal at Little Gibraltar A German Fortress, a Treacherous American General, and the Battle to End World War I.pdf

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CONTENTS
Yanks from “Baltimore’s Own” Regiment discovered that advancing over open ground against
German fortifications was a dangerous proposition. More than 122,000 Yanks were wounded or killed
in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, making it the bloodiest battle in American history.
Dedication
Epigraph
PROLOGUE
Words Tongued with Fire
PART I
THE STAKES
CHAPTER
1 “Horrors from the Abyss”
Major Harry Parkin’s Affidavit
CHAPTER
2 Little Gibraltar of the Western Front
CHAPTER
3 “Do You Wish to Take Part in the Battle?”
CHAPTER
4 “This Appalling Proposition”
CHAPTER
5 “Feeling Like Crusaders”
CHAPTER
6 Training for Disaster
CHAPTER
7 “An Ominous, Dread-Inspiring Place”
PART II
BATTLE AND BETRAYAL
CHAPTER
8 Toward Montfaucon and into a Trap
CHAPTER
9 “The 79th Is Holding Up the Entire First Army”
CHAPTER
10 “Bayonet and Rifle Butt, Pistol and Trench Knife”
CHAPTER
11 “All America Is Behind Us”
CHAPTER
12 “Regardless of Cost”
CHAPTER
13 The Cost of “Regardless”
CHAPTER
14 Relief and Disgrace
CHAPTER
15 Into the Cyclone . . . Once Again
CHAPTER
16 Redemption on Corn Willy Hill
CHAPTER
17 Making Good . . . at Last
PART III
THE WAR AFTER THE WAR
CHAPTER
18 Controlling the Narrative
CHAPTER
19 Bullard, Bjornstad, and Booth
CHAPTER
20 Betrayal at Little Gibraltar
CHAPTER
21 Denkmal: Remembering the Doughboys
EPILOGUE
“Some Could, Some Could Not, Shake Off Misery”
Photographs
Appendix
Acknowledgments
About William Walker
Notes
Bibliography
Photograph Credits
Index

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