The Millionaires' Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented American Air Power Playing Cards had battled against each other

had battled against each other in what was one of the first confrontations of the Russian Civil War

placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack

they and their American allies did the impossible: they returned movement to the western theater

HMS Laurentic struck two German mines off the coast of Ireland and sank

the young nurse was caught by the Germans placing dynamite in a disused sewer tunnel underneath an ammunition dump

The Millionaires' Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented American Air Power Playing Cards had battled against each otherDescription by Marc Wortman Paperback The Millionaires' Unit is the story of a gilded generation of young men from the zenith of privilege: a Rockefeller, the son of the head of the Union Pacific Railroad, several who counted friends and relatives among presidents and statesmen of the day. They had it all and, remarkably by modern standards, they were prepared to risk it all to fight a distant war in France. Driven by the belief that their membership