The great rescue : American heroes, an iconic ship, and the race to save Europe in WWI /
When war broke out in Europe in August 1914, the new German luxury ocean liner SS Vaterland was interned in New York Harbor, where it remained docked for nearly three years, until the United States officially entered the fight to turn the tide of the war. Seized by authorities for the US Navy once w...
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New York :
HarperCollins Publishers,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of 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".