Scarlet Fields: The Combat Memoir of a World War I Medal of Honor Hero

Scarlet Fields: The Combat Memoir of a World War I Medal of Honor HeroDescription by John Lewis Barkley Paperback A reconnaissance man and sniper, Barkley served in Company K of the 4th Infantry Regiment, a unit that participated in almost every major American battle. The York like episode that earned Barkley his Congressional Medal of Honor occurred on October 7, 1918, when he climbed into an abandoned French tank and singlehandedly held off an advancing German force, killing hundreds of enemy soldiers. But Barkley's

poetry and prose determined—sometimes in advance of the events described—the way we would think about and remember the war

Passchendaele is a masterly and timely analysis of one of the most important battles in history

the 369th has become more a matter of mythology than grounded

bringing the First World War to an end

a noted Canadian physician before the war

their courage and steel tested with every flight

Through the voices and recollections of the soldiers who were there

Woodward uses graphic eyewitness accounts from the diaries

her army was faced with the Axis invasion

of the association each ship may have had with famous people and events of the war

It was a battle in which at least 700

This is no ordinary novel