As German U-boats continued to sink Allied ships, including those with neutral Americans on board, former President Theodore Roosevelt was desperate to get permission to re-organize his old outfit, the Rough Riders. During the Spanish-American War (War for Cuban Independence of 1898), TR had led his volunteer troops to victory. Now America needed him again, he figured, but his old political adversary didn't want a 59-year-old ex-president heading to the new mechanized deathtrap that was The Great War. How it played out, how his four sons fared in the US military, and how the great hero and esteemed American reacted make for compelling reading!
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