Sergeant York: Last of the Long Hunters

xiv, 240 pp. Color frontispiece and black-and-white plates by Edwin John Prittie. Authorized by Sergeant Alvin C. York. Alvin Cullum York, also known as Sergeant York, was one of the most decorated soldiers in the US Army in WWI. He received the Medal of Honor for an attack on a German machine gun nest during the Argonne Offensive in France. He captured 32 machine guns and 132 soldiers, and killed 20 or more soldiers. During the 1919 interview for the Medal of Honor, he told the officials, "A higher power than man guided and watched over me and told me what to do." This is the biography that York authorized. Facsimile of letter from President Herbert Hoover to Sergeant York precedes text.