Unveiling the Untold Courage Behind the Mask: The True Story of an Everyday Hero
The great powers of Europe spent a decade building huge armies and navies, and in 1914, the assassination of an Austrian nobleman turned the rival nations into enemy combatants. The United States remained neutral for almost three years, until German submarine warfare forced President Wilson’s hand.
The president had campaigned on promises to keep the nation out of the conflict, but only weeks into his second term, he had to quickly reverse course and convince Americans to join a war that already had cost millions of European lives.
