Audio Book Description:
Spring 1916: the horror of a stalemateon Europe`s western front. France and Great Britain are on one side of the barbed wire, a fierce German army is onthe other. In the skies, high above the chaos on the ground, meanwhile, technology has provided a devastating new tool, theaeroplane, and with it a different kind of hero emerges- the flying ace. These solitary knights duel in the splendor and terror of the skies, their courageand steel tested with every flight. As the conflict stretches into its third year, a neutral America is goaded into war. Yet the Americans are woefullyunprepared and ill equipped to enter a war that has become worldwide in scope. Responsibility is placed on the shoulders of General John "Black Jack"Pershing, and by mid-1917 the first waveof the American Expeditionary Force arrives in Europe. From Black Jack Pershing to theMarines in the trenches, from the Red Baron to the American pilots of the Lafayette Escadrille, To the Last Man iswrittenwith the moving vividness andaccuracy that characterizes Jeff Shaara`s work.
