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Acceptable: A book with obvious wear. May have some damage to the cover but integrity still intact. ...
Release Year
2020
ISBN
9781526773265
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Pen & Sword Books The Limited
ISBN-10
1526773260
ISBN-13
9781526773265
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5050392330

Product Key Features

Book Title
Great War in the Argonne Forest : French and American Battles, 1914-1918
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Topic
Europe / Western, Military / World War I, World
Genre
History
Author
Richard Merry
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
What makes this book particularly worth reading are the ongoing descriptions of the home front: London's social life and suffering, rationing, feelings of desperation, fatigue, German bombing, the women casualties in France, bacterial infections, and the onslaught of the flu that possibly killed six times as many as the Great War did. These are aspects of the Great War rarely discussed in other texts.
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Dewey Decimal
940.436
Synopsis
The annals of the First World War record the Argonne Forest as the epicenter of the famous Meuse-Argonne offensive of 1918. The largest American operation launched against the Germans during the conflict. During 1914 and 1915 though, amidst the dense forest, French and Italian soldiers withstood the German assaults. All sides suffered horrendous casualties, as each sought to break through the lines.The epic four-year campaign is the subject of Richard Merry's vividly written account. His great-uncle arrived there in September 1914 and started corresponding with his family. Richard traces the stories of some of the men - and women - who became embroiled in the epic forest struggle which culminated in the cold, gas-filled autumnal mist of 1918 when the New Yorkers of the 77th 'Liberty' Division fought there. One of their number, Charles Whittlesey, and his 'Lost Battalion' held out against insurmountable odds. Sergeant Alvin York, the Tennessee backwoodsman and pacifist, overcame his religious convictions and wrote himself into American military history.The story does not end there; the author describes the aftermath of war in the area - the lethal outbreak of Spanish flu, the reburial of the dead, the rebuilding of the villages and the replanting of the forest before the Germans invaded again in 1940., The annals of the First World War record the Argonne Forest as the epicenter of the famous Meuse-Argonne offensive of 1918.
LC Classification Number
D545.A63

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