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  • Rendezvous with Death

  • The Americans Who Joined the Foreign Legion in 1914 to Fight for France and for Civilization
  • By: David Hanna
  • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
  • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins

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Rendezvous with Death

By: David Hanna
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
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Publisher's Summary

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."

©2016 David Hanna (P)2016 Tantor
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  • Categories: History

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