"This is the history of American soldiers buried abroad since the American Revolution. It traces the evolution of American attitudes toward its war dead and provides the location of individual burial sites and the names of those interred"-- Provided by publisher.

Seas and shores -- Prisons and churchyards -- Safe havens and hasty cemeteries -- In foreign lands at home -- Paris and Parral -- Americans in any uniform -- Decisions to be made -- Monuments and pilgrimage : search for the lost -- Scattered from the sky -- Islands and farmlands -- Expanded families, gracious towns -- Cold earth and tropical earth -- Remembered, lost, forgotten, unknown -- Ordinary lives, extraordinary events -- Memorial Day.