After the American declaration of war in 1917, two million US troops were deployed to France - among them the recently d
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English Pages 495 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Year 2017
Table of contents :
Setting the stage --
War comes to Baltimore --
Creating an army --
What Pershing should have known --
Training--
the army at war with itself --
Americans reach the battlefield --
First Army takes the field --
Concentration --
The Germans --
Over the top and up the hill, September 26 --
Left, right, and straight ahead, September 26 --
"Montfaucon taken," September 27 --
Bois de Beuge and Nantillois, September 28 --
Bois 250 and Madeleine Farm, September 29-30 --
Interlude--
Troyon Sector, October 1-28 --
Borne de Cornouiller and the Heights of the Meuse, October 29-November 10 --
Armistice to home, November 11, 1918-June 4, 1919.