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Author |
: Frederick PALMER (War Correspondent.) |
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Total Pages |
: 629 |
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: 1919 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:562771209 |
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: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Our Greatest Battle-the Meuse-Argonne. [With maps.]. by : Frederick PALMER (War Correspondent.)
Author |
: Frederick Palmer |
Publisher |
: Scholars Bookshelf |
Total Pages |
: 629 |
Release |
: 2006-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1601050380 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781601050380 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Our Greatest Battle (the Meuse-Argonne) by : Frederick Palmer
First published right after WW I in 1919, and written by a soldier and press relations officer in the A.E.F., this unusually detailed and comprehensive account studied the role of all the American divisions and their day-by-day operations, providing one of the very first accounts of how battles were planned and executed, what life was like under the shells and gas and machine guns, the course of the fighting at this site, and how the American troops and command faced up to war. 11 maps. 2006 Scholar's Bookshelf reprint edition.
Author |
: Frederick Palmer |
Publisher |
: New York, Dodd |
Total Pages |
: 672 |
Release |
: 1919 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89100115534 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Our Greatest Battle (the Meuse-Argonne) by : Frederick Palmer
Author |
: Frederick 1873-1958 Palmer |
Publisher |
: Wentworth Press |
Total Pages |
: 678 |
Release |
: 2016-08-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1373394234 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781373394231 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis OUR GREATEST BATTLE (THE MEUSE by : Frederick 1873-1958 Palmer
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Author |
: Edward G. Lengel |
Publisher |
: Henry Holt and Company |
Total Pages |
: 532 |
Release |
: 2008-01-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429924757 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1429924756 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis To Conquer Hell by : Edward G. Lengel
The authoritative, dramatic, and previously untold story of the bloodiest battle in American history: the epic fight for the Meuse-Argonne in World War I On September 26, 1918, more than one million American soldiers prepared to assault the German-held Meuse-Argonne region of France. Their commander, General John J. Pershing, believed in the superiority of American "guts" over barbed wire, machine guns, massed artillery, and poison gas. In thirty-six hours, he said, the Doughboys would crack the German defenses and open the road to Berlin. Six weeks later, after savage fighting across swamps, forests, towns, and rugged hills, the battle finally ended with the signing of the armistice that concluded the First World War. The Meuse-Argonne had fallen, at the cost of more than 120,000 American casualties, including 26,000 dead. In the bloodiest battle the country had ever seen, an entire generation of young Americans had been transformed forever. To Conquer Hell is gripping in its accounts of combat, studded with portraits of remarkable soldiers like Pershing, Harry Truman, George Patton, and Alvin York, and authoritative in presenting the big picture. It is military history of the first rank and, incredibly, the first in-depth account of this fascinating and important battle.
Author |
: Douglas V. Mastriano |
Publisher |
: University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages |
: 456 |
Release |
: 2018-06-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813175584 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813175585 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Thunder in the Argonne by : Douglas V. Mastriano
In July 1918, sensing that the German Army had lost crucial momentum, Supreme Allied Commander Ferdinand Foch saw an opportunity to end the First World War. In drafting his plans for a final grand offensive, he assigned the most difficult sector -- the dense Argonne forest and the vast Meuse River valley -- to the American Expeditionary Forces under General John J. Pershing. There, the Doughboys faced thickly defended German lines with terrain deemed impossible to fight through. From September 26 through the November 11 armistice, US forces suffered more than 20,000 casualties a week, but the Allies ultimately prevailed in a decisive victory that helped to end the Great War. In Thunder in the Argonne, Douglas V. Mastriano offers the most comprehensive account of this legendary campaign to date. Not only does he provide American, French, and British perspectives on the offensive, but he also offers -- for the first time in English -- the German view. Mastriano presents a balanced analysis of successes and failures at all levels of command, examining the leadership of the principals while also illuminating acts of heroism by individual soldiers. The Meuse-Argonne Offensive is widely regarded as one of America's finest hours, and the amazing feats of Sergeant Alvin York, Major Charles Whittlesey of the Lost Battalion, and Lieutenant Sam Woodfill -- all accomplished in the midst of this maelstrom -- echo across the ages. Published to coincide with the centennial of the campaign, this engaging book offers a fresh look at the battle that forged the modern US Army
Author |
: Brian Lane Herder |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 97 |
Release |
: 2020-12-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781472842756 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1472842758 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Meuse-Argonne Offensive 1918 by : Brian Lane Herder
When the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, the tiny US Army did not even have a standing division. A huge national army worthy of the Western Front was quickly enlisted, trained, and then transported to France to fight against the Germans. In September 1918, the American Expeditionary Force, under General John Pershing, began its first full-scale offensive against German forces in Lorraine, in which the US First Army and (eventually) the US Second Army would drive north between the Argonne Forest and the Meuse river towards Sedan. The Meuse-Argonne was excellent defensive terrain, being hilly, steep, heavily wooded, and fortified by the Germans over a three-year period. The offensive began on 26 September, 1918. A largely inexperienced US First Army, with mid-level officers including Harry S. Truman, Douglas MacArthur and George Patton, suffered setbacks and heavy casualties during its straight-ahead offensive against a still-potent but fading German Fifth Army. However, by early November, 1.2 million Americans and several hundred thousand French were engaged at the Meuse-Argonne and the Hindenburg Line had been decisively broken. The German withdrawal from Sedan approached a rout and the Americans finally had the Germans on the run until the Armistice ended the offensive on 11 November, 1918. This engaging title tells the full story of this key offensive, illustrating and explaining the troops, weapons and tactics of both the American Expeditionary Force and the German Fifth Army in stunning detail.
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: American Library Association |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 436 |
Release |
: 1923 |
ISBN-10 |
: IOWA:31858036331621 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis A.L.A. Catalog by : American Library Association
Author |
: Robert H. Ferrell |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015067708365 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis America's Deadliest Battle by : Robert H. Ferrell
Preparation -- The plan -- First days -- The 35th Division -- Ending the enfilade -- The Kriemhilde Stellung -- Reorganization -- Breakout -- Victory.
Author |
: Robert H. Ferrell |
Publisher |
: University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 2007-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780700618576 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0700618570 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis America's Deadliest Battle by : Robert H. Ferrell
American fighting men had never seen the likes of it before. The great battle of the Meuse-Argonne was the costliest conflict in American history, with 26,000 men killed and tens of thousands wounded. Involving 1.2 million American troops over 47 days, it ended on November 11-what we now know as Armistice Day-and brought an end to World War I, but at a great price. Distinguished historian Robert Ferrell now looks back at this monumental struggle to create the definitive study of the battle-and to determine just what made it so deadly. Ferrell reexamines factors in the war that many historians have chosen to disregard. He points first to the failure of the Wilson administration to mobilize the country for war. American industry had not been prepared to produce the weaponry or transport ships needed by our military, and the War Department-with outmoded concepts of battle shaped by the Spanish-American War-shared equal blame in failing to train American soldiers for a radically new type of warfare. Once in France, undertrained American doughboys were forced to learn how to conduct mobile warfare through bloody experience. Ferrell assesses the soldiers' lack of skill in the use of artillery, the absence of tactics for taking on enemy machine gun nests, and the reluctance of American officers to use poison gas-even though by 1918 it had become a staple of warfare. In all of these areas, the German army held the upper hand. Ferrell relates how, during the last days of the Meuse-Argonne, the American divisions had finally learned up-to-date tactics, and their final attack on November 1 is now seen as a triumph of military art. Yet even as the armistice was being negotiated, some American officers-many of whom had never before commanded men in battle-continued to spur their troops on, wasting more lives in an attempt to take new ground mere hours before the settlement. Besides the U.S. shortcomings in mobilization and tactics, Ferrell points to the greatest failure of all: the failure to learn from the experience, as after the armistice the U.S. Army retreated to its prewar mindset. Enhanced by more than four dozen maps and photographs, America's Deadliest Battle is a riveting revisit to the forests of France that reminds us of the costs of World War I-and of the shadow that it cast on the twentieth century.