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“Walker focuses on World War I’s bloodiest battle: the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, also referred to as Little Gibraltar on the western front…Combining secondary literature on the American Expeditionary Forces with extensive archival sources on the war, Walker’s reconstruction of the details of the battle is nicely balanced with the stories of individual participants. He creates a convincing argument for a postwar cover-up of Bullard’s actions. A military history for all.” Library Journal
“How strange that the Meuse-Argonne campaign in the last weeks of World War I is not better remembered: to this day it remains the largest and costliest battle American troops ever fought. William Walker’s Betrayal at Little Gibraltar should help dispel this national amnesia, for he has given us both a propulsive, closely observed war narrative and an engrossing murder mystery. The victims are thousands of needlessly killed American soldiers, the perpetrator a vain, glory-hungry general whose motives Walker artfully uncovers in a tale of low selfishness and high courage that casts fresh light on the timeless snares of military command while righting a tremendous century-old wrong.” Richard Snow, author of A Measureless Peril
“William Walker’s Betrayal at Little Gibraltar provides evidence of a deliberate misinterpretation of orders and of an army cover-up afterward. The cast of characters, from men like Pershing, Bullard, and Kuhn to common soldiers like novelist James A. Cain and Harry Parkin, is compelling…An exciting read.” Edward G. Lengel, author of To Conquer Hell