Matthew Davenport - "The Longest Minute: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906"

Matthew J. Davenport’s first book, First Over There: The Attack on Cantigny, America’s First Battle of World War I (2015), was a finalist for the 2015 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History. Davenport is a practicing attorney in North Carolina. 

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