Lost Battalions: The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality Symposium From the dirt and danger

From the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace

Boris Pasternak

This was a war of land campaigns

While many studies have addressed the national or transnational narrative of women in the war

Lost Battalions: The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality Symposium From the dirt and dangerDescription by Richard Slotkin Paperback During the bloodiest days of World War I, no soldiers served more valiantly than the African American troops of the 369th Infantrythe fabled Harlem Hellfightersand the legendary 77th "lost battalion" composed of New York City immigrants. Though these men had lived up to their side of the bargain as loyal American soldiers, the country to which they returned solidified laws and patterns of social behavior that