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Rendezvous with Death
The Americans Who Joined the Foreign Legion in 1914 to Fight For France and For Civilization
Author: David Hanna
Narrator: Joe Barrett
Unabridged: 7 hr 58 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Published: 06/20/2016
Category: History - Military - World War I
Synopsis
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.