The great rescue : American heroes, an iconic ship, and the race to save Europe in WWI, Peter Hernon

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The great rescue : American heroes, an iconic ship, and the race to save Europe in WWI, Peter Hernon

Title remainder

American heroes, an iconic ship, and the race to save Europe in WWI

Statement of responsibility

Peter Hernon

Instantiates

• The great rescue : American heroes, an iconic ship, and the race to save Europe in WWI

Publication

• New York, NY, HarperCollins Publishers, 2017

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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volume

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• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

Trapped in New York -- "All the best pictures of the ruins" -- "You will never run her" -- Voting no to war -- Monster of the deep -- The general and the mademoiselle -- Dead in the water -- "I am not joking" -- Missed rendezvous -- "An admiring and jealous white audience" -- A new skipper -- "The Tuscania's been hit" -- Steaming for "Rendezvous A" -- Two dead nurses -- The orphans of Brest -- A promise of help -- and Micheline's kisses -- POWs and icebergs -- Lessons in trench warfare -- Lost in the fog -- Hand grenades and Brownings -- "Blitzkatarrh, " or "Flanders fever" -- An even better target -- U-boat attack -- "Don't lose hope -- I beg you" -- Submarines and the sky pilot -- "Another way of spelling the word 'American'" -- 40 hommes/8 chevaux -- The king of gasses -- Two men overboard -- Visiting the front with FDR -- A near-death experience -- Moving up to the front -- "Everyone attack" -- Fear of a "flu trip" -- A bad wound -- The eve of the flu voyage -- "Kamerad! Kamerad!" -- Pandemic at sea -- "Funny little smile" -- Burials at sea -- The U-boats go home -- The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month -- Partying in Liverpool -- A sailor named Bogart -- Journey of the survivors -- A famous shoreline -- "Amid a silence that hurt" -- Farewell to arms -- "I have made plans for us"

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ocn979534088

Dimensions

24 cm

Edition

First edition.

Extent

x, 350 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates

Isbn

9780062433862

Lccn

2017012596

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

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illustrations

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u368450

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• (Sirsi) 1705992
• (OCoLC)979534088