The Foreign Burial of American War Dead

by Dickon, Chris

• ISBN13: 9780786446124
• ISBN10: 0786446129
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-08-31
• Publisher: McFarland Publishing

Summary

Normandy, Flanders Field and other cemeteries for American war dead buried outside the United States are well known. However, lesser-known burial sites exist all over the world - in Australia and across the Pacific Rim, in Canada and Mexico, Libya and Spain, even as far north as the Russian Arctic. The story of who these soldiers were and how they ended up in foreign cemeteries traces the evolution of American attitudes toward its war dead and simultaneously offers a new perspective on the nation for which they died. The text provides the names of the war dead and the location of individual burial sites.

Author Biography

Writer Chris Dickon is an Emmy-winning former public broadcasting producer, reporter and writer. He has published several books on lesser-known aspects of American history. He lives in Portsmouth, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	p. 1
Seas and Shores	p. 3
Prisons and Churchyards	p. 12
Safe Havens and Hasty Cemeteries	p. 20
In Foreign Lands at Home	p. 27
Paris and Parral	p. 36
Americans in Any Uniform	p. 44
Decisions to Be Made	p. 58
Monuments and Pilgrimage: Search for the Lost	p. 69
Scattered from the Sky	p. 87
Islands and Farmlands	p. 102
Expanded Families, Gracious Towns	p. 119
Cold Earth and Tropical Earth	p. 137
Remembered, Lost, Forgotten, Unknown	p. 148
Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Events	p. 166
Memorial Day	p. 182
Afterword	p. 212
Appendices	p. 217
Notes	p. 277
Bibliography	p. 283
Index	p. 287
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