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Finding The Last Battalion.


Finding The Last Battalion

Robert J. Laplander

Lulu Press

PO Box 2344, Napa, CA 94558

1411676564 $25.00 www.lulu.com

Finding The Last Battalion: Beyond The Rumors, Myths And Legends Myths and Legends is a Collectible Card Game based on universal mythologies, developed in 2000 in Santiago, Chile. The game now has 0 editions and more than 3,000 collectible cards.  Of America's Famous WWI WWI
abbr.
World War I


WWI World War One
 Epic by Robert J. Laplander is the extraordinary World War I story of a group of allied soldiers who found themselves cut off by German forces and had to hold one against over whelming odds until they could be rescued. The troops were never really "lost" in the sense that no one knew where they were, but they were without communications and their superiors did not know if they were alive or dead. Deftly deft  
adj. deft·er, deft·est
Quick and skillful; adroit. See Synonyms at dexterous.



[Middle English, gentle, humble, variant of dafte, foolish; see daft.
 compiling previous studies and in-depth documentation of the "Lost Battalion Lost Battalion, in World War I, popular name given to those American units of the 77th Division—six companies of the 1st and 2d battalions of the 308th Infantry, one company of the 307th Infantry, and the platoons of the 306th Machine Gun Battalion—that ", author Robert J. Laplander comprehensively explores the recorded stories of happened in a truly epic struggle from beginning to end. An invaluable and appreciated contribution to the growing library of World War I military histories, Finding The Last Battalion is very highly recommended reading for military buffs wanting a factual understanding and true appreciation of the incident that made the men of the Lost Battalion legendary in military annals an·nals  
pl.n.
1. A chronological record of the events of successive years.

2. A descriptive account or record; a history: "the short and simple annals of the poor" 
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Title Annotation:Finding The Last Battalion: Beyond The Rumors, Myths And Legends Of America's Famous WWI Epic
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Date:Jun 1, 2006
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