Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his "New York Times"
bestselling novels set during the Civil War and the American
Revolution. Now the acclaimed author turns to World War I, bringing
to life the sweeping, emotional story of the war that devastated a
generation and established America as a world power.
Spring 1916: the horror of a stalemate on Europe's western front.
France and Great Britain are on one side of the barbed wire, a
fierce German army is on the other. Shaara opens the window onto
the otherworldly tableau of trench warfare as seen through the eyes
of a typical British soldier who experiences the bizarre and the
horrible-a "Tommy" whose innocent youth is cast into the hell of a
terrifying war.
In the skies, meanwhile, technology has provided a devastating new
tool, the aeroplane, and with it a different kind of hero
emerges-the flying ace. Soaring high above the chaos on the ground,
these solitary knights duel in the splendor and terror of the
skies, their courage and steel tested with every flight.
As the conflict stretches into its third year, a neutral America is
goaded into war, its reluctant president, Woodrow Wilson, finally
accepting the repeated challenges to his stance of nonalignment.
Yet the Americans are woefully unprepared and ill equipped to enter
a war that has become worldwide in scope. The responsibility is
placed on the shoulders of General John "Blackjack" Pershing, and
by mid-1917 the first wave of the American Expeditionary Force
arrives in Europe. Encouraged by the bold spirit and strength of
the untested Americans, the world waits to see if the tide of war
can finally be turned.
From Blackjack Pershing to the Marine in the trenches, from the Red
Baron to the American pilots of the Lafayette Escadrille, "To the
Last Man" is written with the moving vividness and accuracy that
characterizes all of Shaara's work. This spellbinding new novel
carries readers-the way only Shaara can-to the heart of one of the
greatest conflicts in human history, and puts them face-to-face
with the characters who made a lasting impact on the world.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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