100 Medal of Honor Stories from World War I: Courage, Sacrifice, and Survival in the to End All Wars

The First World War changed the meaning of modern battle. Machine guns, barbed wire, artillery, poison gas, aircraft, tanks, trenches, and mud turned courage into something harsher, closer, and more costly than earlier generations had imagined.This book tells one hundred Medal of Honor stories from America's role in the War to End All Wars. These are stories of soldiers, Marines, sailors, airmen, officers, medics, scouts, runners, rescuers, machine-gun attackers, and men who kept moving when fear, wounds, and exhaustion should have stopped them.Some names became famous: Alvin C. York, Henry Johnson, Daniel J. Daly, Samuel Woodfill, Freddie Stowers, Charles Whittlesey, and others. Many more are less remembered, but their courage was no smaller. They crossed fire-swept ground, rescued wounded comrades, attacked machine-gun nests, carried messages through shellfire, held desperate positions, and refused to abandon the men beside them.100 Medal of Honor Stories from World War I is not a full military history of the Great War. It is a focused collection of battlefield courage, sacrifice, survival, delayed recognition, and memory.The war was vast. The courage was personal.