Rendezvous with Death

The Americans Who Joined the Foreign Legion in 1914 to Fight for France and for Civilization

David Hanna (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

332 Seiten

2016
Regnery History (Verlag)
978-1-62157-396-8 (ISBN)

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They volunteered for the French, but they were fighting for the future of civilization.

Before America joined World War I, a small group of Americans volunteered for the French Foreign Legion to help defeat the Central Powers. Historian David Hanna profiles seven of these volunteers: a poet, an artist, a boxer, a stunt pilot, a college student, a veteran of the Spanish American War, and an advertising executive. All seven men were united in courage; and some, like poet Alan Seeger, paid the ultimate sacrifice. Before he was killed in battle, Seeger penned the immortal words that inspired this book's title:

I've a rendezvous with Death
At midnight in some flaming town,
When Spring trips north again this year,
And I to my pledged word am true,
I shall not fail that rendezvous.

David Hanna teaches history at Stuyvesant High School in New York. He lives with his family in Morris County, New Jersey.

Erscheinungsdatum	10.06.2016
Verlagsort	DC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	429 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-62157-396-6 / 1621573966
ISBN-13	978-1-62157-396-8 / 9781621573968
Zustand	Neuware