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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1919. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... XIII THE MEUSE-ARGONNE BEGINS October 4, 1918 AT dawn on September 26, 1918, the First American Army, flushed with its first swift success at St. Mihiel, struck its second blow on a wide front northwest of Verdun-- struck and drove the Germans from many a town and village, from many a hill and valley, they had held since the first weeks of the World War. All that region the night before had been blasted by such a concourse of guns as had had no precedent in American history, and by sundown of the second day the infantry, which swarmed forward through the mist of Thursday morning, had fought its way far into the wild forest of Argonne, had carried by storm the forbidding height of Montfaucon, had restored village after village to France, and had sent more than 8000 prisoners trotting back through the chill September rain to the waiting pens behind. The attack was made on a twenty-mile front. The communiques of the first two days announced that troops from twelve States-- Pennsylvania, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana--were participating in the action. In all that battle-line there was not a gunner at his lanyard, not a cook straining to push his kitchen forward, not a doughboy crouching ominous in the mud, who did not know--and who was not immensely heartened by the knowledge --that at his own army's left the French were fighting victoriously in Champagne; that to the north the British, Belgians, and Yankees were forging ahead. He knew that he and his were taking part in the largest combined military movement the Western front had ever known--that they were taking part in a battle which, with intervals of quiet and taut expectancy, stretched from Lorraine to the North Sea. The impression of ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150308628
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 56
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150308621
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 118 gr


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