Edition |
First Scribner hardcover edition. |
Description |
xiii, 447 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references(pages 417-429) and index. |
Contents |
Prologue: words tongued with fire -- Part I. The stakes -- "Horrors from the abyss" -- Major Harry Parkin's affidavit -- Little Gibraltar of the Western Front -- "Do you wish to take part in the battle?" -- "This appalling proposition" -- "Feeling like crusaders" -- Training for disaster -- "An ominous, dread inspiring place" -- Part II. Battle and betrayal -- Toward Montfaucon and into a trap -- "The 79th is holding up the entire First Army" -- "Bayonet and rifle butt, pistol and trench knife" -- "All America is behind us" -- "Regardless of cost" -- The cost of "regardless" -- Relief and disgrace -- Into the cyclone...once again -- Redemption on Corn Willy Hill -- Making good...at last -- Part III. The war after the war -- Controlling the narrative -- Bullard, Bjornstad, and Booth -- Betrayal at Little Gibraltar -- Denkmal: remembering the lost doughboys -- Epilogue: "Some could, some could not, shake off misery". |
Summary |
"A painstakingly researched account of World War I's violent Meuse-Argonne Offensive and the 100-year-old cover-up at its center traces the efforts of AEF Commander-in-Chief John J. Pershing to capture the near-impregnable German Montfaucon and the inside betrayal that cost untold lives"--NoveList. |
Subject |
Argonne, Battle of the, France, 1918.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Meuse River Valley.
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Montfaucon (Meuse, France) -- History, Military -- 20th century.
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United States. Army. Infantry Division, 79th -- History -- World War, 1914-1918.
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Bullard, Robert Lee, 1861-1947 -- Military leadership.
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Bullard, Robert Lee, 1861-1947. (OCoLC)fst00220910
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United States. Army. Infantry Division, 79th. (OCoLC)fst00562117
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Argonne, Battle of the (France : 1918) (OCoLC)fst00814332
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World War (1914-1918) (OCoLC)fst01180746
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Military campaigns. (OCoLC)fst01710190
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Military leadership. (OCoLC)fst01185276
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Europe -- Meuse River Valley.
(OCoLC)fst01274686
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France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
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France -- Meuse -- Montfaucon.
(OCoLC)fst01321781
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HISTORY / Military / United States.
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HISTORY / Military / World War I.
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HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
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Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Military history. (OCoLC)fst01411630
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ISBN |
9781501117893 (hardcover) |
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1501117890 (hardcover) |
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9781501117916 |
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1501117912 |
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