All Souls Day

The World War II Battle and the Search for a Lost U.S. Battalion

Joseph M. Pereira, John L. Wilson (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

266 Seiten

2023
Potomac Books Inc (Verlag)
978-1-64012-564-3 (ISBN)

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The U.S. Army attacked three villages near the German-Belgium border, surprising the Germans who surrendered with little resistance. The German army regrouped and counterattacked. A brief but horrific battle ensued, and as the enemy pressed forward, the Americans retreated in haste, leaving behind their wounded and their dead. Discussion of this week-long conflict that began on All Souls Day, November 2, 1944, has been confined to officer training school, in part due to its heavy losses and ignominy.

After the war the U.S. Army returned to the battlefield to bring home its fallen. To its dismay it found that many of these men had vanished. The disappearances were puzzling and for decades the U.S. government searched unsuccessfully for clues. After poring over now-declassified battlefield reports and interviewing family members, the authors reconstruct a spellbinding story of love and sacrifice, honor and bravery, as well as a portrait of the gnawing pain of families not knowing what became of their loved ones. Ultimately this work of history and in-depth contemporary journalism proffers a glimmer of light in the ongoing search.

Joseph M. Pereira is an award-winning journalist who worked for the Wall Street Journal for more than two decades. He has taught journalism at Emerson College and at the New England Center for Investigative Reporting at Boston University. He was a member of the Wall Street Journal staff that won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the 9/11 attacks, and he has won several other awards for his investigative work. John L. Wilson served in the U.S. Army and earned a BS from Boston College and an MBA from Boston University. He has worked for major multinational corporations leading international business development throughout Europe and Asia. Because of Wilson’s extensive research for missing soldiers in the Hürtgen Forest Battle, he has been invited to the Pentagon to propose additional methodologies to search for many more still-missing American soldiers.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Price of Bravery
1. Molly and Peggy
2. They Can’t Find Jack
3. If You Were Young and Strong and Male
4. Under the Gaze of a Zen Master
5. In the Stillness of a Predawn Hour
6. The Autumn of Its Reign
7. Replacement Depot No. 15
8. Tucked into the Alluvial Folds
9. Flashes of Fire Danced like Distant Lightning
10. I Felt Like a Little Napoleon
11. Like Caskets Tossed from the Deck
12. If I Leave Now, Would It Be Desertion?
13. From the Lower Levels of Dante’s Inferno
14. Am I Wounded Badly?
15. It Had a Bittersweet Sound
16. Zwei Amerikanische Soldaten
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.04.2023
Zusatzinfo	19 photographs, 3 tables, index
Verlagsort	Dulles
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-64012-564-7 / 1640125647
ISBN-13	978-1-64012-564-3 / 9781640125643
Zustand	Neuware