The Shamrock Battalion in the Great War

by Hogan, Martin J.

• ISBN13: 9780826217103
• ISBN10: 0826217109
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-30
• Publisher: Univ of Missouri Pr

Summary

When Martin Hogan began training on a vacant lot to be a soldier, he had no idea that he was about to become part of one of the most famed fighting units of World War I, the 165th Infantry in World War I, a regiment in the famed Rainbow Division. Company K of the Third or Shamrock Battalion had a part in every fight, and those who survived had more wound stripes than soldiers of any other company in the American Expeditionary Forces. Few soldiers saw as much of the war in eighteen months as did Hogan, and in this stirring account he tells of his experiences with graphic power, humility, and humor. This insider view of the frontline experience during the Great War attests that the Rainbow Division "epitomized the best of the best spirit in the world-the American spirit."

Author Biography

James J. Cooke is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Mississippi and lives in Oxford.

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction	p. 1
Notes on the Text	p. 11
Author's Note	p. 13
One of the Beginnings of the "Rainbow" Division	p. 15
Through the Submarines	p. 20
Tightening Belts for the Front	p. 24
We Learn the Song of the Guns	p. 34
Our First Fighting	p. 39
In the Hospital	p. 49
Before We Ride the German Storm	p. 53
The "Rainbow" Dams the Flood	p. 65
Through Hell at Chateau Thierry	p. 73
In the Hospital Again	p. 88
The "Million-Dollar Shoot"	p. 95
The Last Great Push	p. 106
God's Country Again	p. 116
My Outfit	p. 124
Bibliography	p. 127
Index	p. 131
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