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The Unknowns - The Untold Story of America's Unknown Soldier and Wwi's Most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home (Hardcover)
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The Unknowns - The Untold Story of America's Unknown Soldier and Wwi's Most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home (Hardcover)
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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is sacred ground at Arlington
National Cemetery. Originally constructed in 1921 to hold one of
the thousands of unidentified American soldiers lost in World War
I, it now also contains unknowns from World War II and the Korean
and Vietnam Wars, and receives millions of visitors each year who
pay silent tribute. When the first Unknown Soldier was laid to rest
in Arlington, General John Pershing, commander of the American
Expeditionary Force in WWI, seleted eight of America's most
decorated, battle-hardened veterans to serve as Body Bearers. For
the first time O'Donnell portrays their heroics on the battlefield
one hundred years ago, thereby animating the Tomb by giving voice
to all who have served. The Body Bearers appropriately spanned
America's service branches and specialties. Their ranks include a
cowboy who relived the charge of the light brigade, an American
Indian who heroically breached mountains of German barbed wire, a
salty New Englander who dueled a U-boat for hours in a fierce
gunfight, a tough New Yorker who sacrificed his body to save his
ship, and an indomitable gunner who, though blinded by gas,
nonetheless overcame five machine-gun nests. Their stories slip
easily into the larger narrative of America's involvement in the
conflict, transporting readers into the midst of dramatic battles
during 1917-1918 that ultimately decided the Great War. Celebrated
military historian and bestselling author Patrick O'Donnell
illuminates the saga behind the creation of the Tomb itself and
recreates the moving ceremony during which it was consecrated and
the eight Body Bearers, and the sergeant who had chosen the one
body to be interred, solemnly united. Brilliantly researched,
vividly told, The Unknowns is a timeless tale of heeding the calls
of duty and brotherhood, and humanizes the most consequential event
of the twentieth century, which still casts a shadow a century
later.
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