The soldier from Independence : a military biography of Harry Truman, volume 1, 1906-1919 / D. M. Giangreco ; foreword by Alonzo L. Hamby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giangreco, D. M., 1952- author.

Contributor:

Hamby, Alonzo L., writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972--Military leadership.

Truman, Harry S.

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.

United States. Army. Field Artillery, 129th. Battery D.

United States.

Presidents--United States--Biography.

Presidents.

Soldiers--United States--Biography.

Soldiers.

World War, 1914-1918--Biography.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Artillery operations, American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 286 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Lincoln, Nebraska] : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2018]

Summary:

Depicts the military career of Harry S. Truman, the future thirty-third president of the United States, during World War I.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Foreword by Alonzo L. Hamby

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. The Life of Napoleon

2. Corporal Harry S. Truman

3. Camp Doniphan

4. "No Trifling Test of Patriotism"

5. Jacobson & Trumanheimer

6. "Wondering if We'd Be Heroes or Corpses"

7. "Dizzy D"

8. "Un Secteur Tranquil"

9. Code Name "Chicago"

10. First Blood

11. 125 Miles of Mud and Rain

12. The Meuse-Argonne

13. "Go to Hell ... But I'll Try!"

14. Scratch Two Boche Batteries

15. Counterattack at Exermont

16. "Frenchmen Buried in My Front Yard and Huns in the Back"

17. "It's Over, Over There"

18. "Full and Immediate Separation"

Notes

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781640121539

1640121536

OCLC:

1059419026