Author Name
Lengel, Edward G.
Title TO CONQUER HELL: THE MEUSE-ARGONNE, 1918.
Binding Hard Cover
Book Condition Very Good+
Jacket Condition Very Good+
Edition First Edition
Publisher New York Henry Holt 2008
ISBN Number
0805079319 / 9780805079319
Seller ID 25982
491 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w photographs, maps. "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 in Hell' is gripping in its accounts of combat, studded with portraits of remarkable soldiers like Pershing, Harry Truman, George Patton, Alvin York, Douglas MacArthur, and many other less well known soldiers, and authoritative in its presentation of the big picture. It is military history of the first rank and, incredibly, the first in-depth account of this fascinating and important battle." Light wrinkling at top of spine. Dust jacket has minor rubbing.
African
Americans,
Aire
River,
Robert
Alexander,
First
Army,
American
Expeditionary
Force,
AEF,
Ammunition,
Artillery,
Casualties,
Tank
Corps,
Tactics,
U.S.
Army
Air
Service,
Argonne
Forest,
Binarville,
Bois
Des
Ogons,
Rappes,
La
Pultiere,
Robert
Lee
Bullard,
Bob
Casey,
Charlevaux,
Cote
Dame
Marie,
Chatillon,
Adelbert
Cronkhite,
Heights
Cunel,
Doughboys,
Medical
Care,
George
Duncan,
Epinonville,
Foch,
France,
Gallwitz,
German
Armed
Forces,
William
Haan,
John
Leonard
Hines,
Kriemhilde
Stellung
Belt,
Donald
Kyler,
Joseph
Kuhn,
Hunter
Liggett,
Douglas
MacArthur,
Madeleine
Farm,
McMurtry,
Meuse,
Montfaucon,
Montrefagne,
Patton,
Dennis
Nolan,
Native
Americans,
Pershing,
Philippine
Insurrection,
Harold
Pierce,
Romagne,
St.
Mihiel,
Sommerance,
Charles
Summerall,
Peter
Traub,
Harry
Truman,
Whittlesey,
Ashby
Williams,
Woodrow
Wilson,
Alvin
York,
Rush
Young,
Ernest
Wrentmore.
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