The Remains of Company D, James Carl Nelson
The Remains of Company D, James Carl Nelson
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The Remains of Company D
A Story of the Great War

Author: James Carl Nelson

Narrator: Ray Porter

Unabridged: 13 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/18/2010

Categories: Nonfiction, History

Synopsis

Haunted by an ancestors tale of near death on a distant battlefield,James Carl Nelsonset out in pursuit of the scraps of memory of his grandfathers small infantry unit. Years of travel across the world led to theretrieval ofunpublished personal papers,obscure memoirs, and communications from numerous Doughboysas well asoriginal interviews ofthedescendents of his grandfathers comrades in arms. The result is a compellingtale of battlerooted in new primary sources, andone mans search for his grandfathers legacy in a horrifying maelstrom that is today poorly understood and nearly forgotten. The Remains of Company D follows the members of Company D, 28th Infantry Regiment, United States First Division, from enlistment tocombat to the effort to recover theirremains, focusing on the three major battles at Cantigny, Soissons, and in the MeuseArgonne and the effect these horrific battleshad on the men. This isan important and powerfultale of the different destinies, personalities, and motivations of the men in Company D and a timeless portrayal of men at war.

About James Carl Nelson

James Carl Nelson received the 2017 Marine Corps Heritage Foundation’s Colonel Joseph Alexander Award for Biography. He is the author of three acclaimed histories of the American experience in World War I: I Will Hold: The Story of USMC Legend Clifton B. Cates, from Belleau Wood to Victory in the Great War; Five Lieutenants: The Heartbreaking Story of Five Harvard Men Who Led America to Victory in World War I; and The Remains of Company D: A Story of the Great War. A former staff writer for the Miami Herald, he lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joselito Honestly

This is how I imagined it all started. He was a journalist. Words being his profession, he read a lot of books. Readers like him (or us) at one point in their lives wonder if they can write well enough and lengthy enough to have a book published carrying their names as proud authors. The first probl......more

Goodreads review by Rob

I've looked for a good World War I book for many years. Most were so dense or tedious that I gave up, relying more on poetry or novels to get a sense of that horrific time. James Carl Nelson gets to the heart of the American place in the war with this book, written as an homage to his late Grandpa,......more

Goodreads review by Lghamilton

Great story about ordinary Americans in the "final push" to defeat Germany. Nelson's grandfather fought and was wounded, and it was not until after the grandfather's death and Nelson's research into WHO Company D was and WHAT is did (includes Argonne) that Nelson truly understood the horror and its......more

Goodreads review by KOMET

I finished this book 10 minutes ago and found it to be not only an account of the author's odyssey to learn more about his grandfather's service in the First World War with Company D of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division, but also a poignant and thoughtful portrait (through excerpts from letters) of sev......more

Goodreads review by Dave

What an Infantry Company did in the "Great War" The author's grandfather lay almost dead in a wheat field in France, Oct. 1918, but lived with pains & haunts into his 90s. Find myself thinking will a grandchild, or great-grandchild of my father read the letters from France and then construct such a......more

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