Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Trapped in New York 1
"All the Best Pictures of the Ruins" 10
Chapter 2
"You Will Never Run Her" 21
Voting No to War 26
Chapter 3
Monster of the Deep 33
The General and the Mademoiselle 38
Chapter 4
Dead in the Water 51
"I Am Not Joking" 59
Chapter 5
Missed Rendezvous 63
"An Admiring and Jealous White Audience" 73
Chapter 6
A New Skipper 79
"The Tuscania's Been Hit" 82
Chapter 7
Steaming for "Rendezvous A" 89
Two Dead Nurses 95
Chapter 8
The Orphans of Brest 101
A Promise of Help-and Micheline's Kisses 105
Chapter 9
POWs and Icebergs 113
Lessons in Trench Warfare 117
Chapter 10
Lost in the Fog 125
Hand Grenades and Brownings 131
Chapter 11
"Blitzkatarrh," or "Flanders Fever" 137
An Even Better Target 141
Chapter 12
U-Boat Attack 147
"Don't Lose Hope-I Beg You" 153
Chapter 13
Submarines and the Sky Pilot 161
"Another Way of Spelling the Word 'American'" 166
Chapter 14
40 Hommes/8 Chevaux 175
The King of Gasses 182
Chapter 15
Two Men Overboard 187
Visiting the Front with FDR 192
Chapter 16
A Near-Death Experience 197
Moving Up to the Front 201
Chapter 17
"Everyone Attack" 215
Fear of a "Flu Trip" 220
Chapter 18
A Bad Wound 223
The Eve of the Flu Voyage 230
Chapter 19
"Kamerad! Kamerad!" 233
Pandemic at Sea 240
Chapter 20
"Funny Little Smile" 247
Burials at Sea 252
Chapter 21
The U'Boats Go Home 257
The Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month 260
Chapter 22
Partying in Liverpool 273
A Sailor Named Bogart 279
Chapter 23
Journey of the Survivors 283
A Famous Shoreline 288
Chapter 24
"Amid a Silence That Hurt" 293
Chapter 25
Farewell to Arms 297
"I Have Made Plans for Us" 299
Epilogue 305
Acknowledgments 311
Notes 315
Select Bibliography 335
Index 339