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  Title

  With their bare hands : General Pershing, the 79th Division, and the battle for Montfaucon

  Author

  Fax, Gene E.,  

  Publisher:

  Osprey Publishing,

  Pub date:

  2017.

  Pages:

  495 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates :

  ISBN:

  9781472819239

  Item info:

  2 copies in Central Library and Kempsville Area Library.
  

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    Central Library	Copies	Material	Location
    940.41273 F281W	1	Book	Shelves    Text It!
    Kempsville Area Library	Copies	Material	Location
    940.41273 F281W	1	Book	Shelves    Text It!

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  With their bare hands : General Pershing, the 79th Division, and the battle for Montfaucon
  Fax, Gene E.,
  

  Personal Author:

  Fax, Gene E.,

  Title:

  With their bare hands : General Pershing, the 79th Division, and the battle for Montfaucon / Gene Fax.

  Prod, Pub, Dist, Man:

  Oxford, England : Osprey Publishing, 2017.

  Physical description:

  495 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

  Contents:

  Setting the stage -- War comes to Baltimore -- Creating an army -- What Pershing should have known -- Training-- the army at war with itself -- Americans reach the battlefield -- First Army takes the field -- Concentration -- The Germans -- Over the top and up the hill, September 26 -- Left, right, and straight ahead, September 26 -- "Montfaucon taken," September 27 -- Bois de Beuge and Nantillois, September 28 -- Bois 250 and Madeleine Farm, September 29-30 -- Interlude-- Troyon Sector, October 1-28 -- Borne de Cornouiller and the Heights of the Meuse, October 29-November 10 -- Armistice to home, November 11, 1918-June 4, 1919.

  Summary:

  After the American declaration of war in 1917, two million US troops were deployed to France - among them the recently drafted 79th Division. These men, raw recruits from the streets of Boston, Washington, DC, and Philadelphia, were plunged into the hell of trench warfare. With just seven weeks of combat experience, they were thrown into their most important and bloody battle of the Meuse-Argonne offensive - the attack on Montfaucon, the highest and most heavily fortified part of the German line. Gene Fax's ground-breaking narrative tells the full story of these men and their commanders from the 1917 draft right through to the end of the war. Using the division as a window on the US Army as a whole, Fax reveals both its mistakes and its triumphs, and how the lessons it learned ultimately helped it to fight World War II. -- back cover.

  Held by:

  CENTRAL KEMPSVILLE

  Personal subject:

  Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860-1948.

  Corporate subject:

  United States. Army. Infantry Division, 79th--History.

  Corporate subject:

  United States. Army. Division, 79th.

  Subject term:

  World War, 1914-1918--Regimental histories--United States.

  Subject term:

  World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--France--Meuse.

  Subject term:

  Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use.

  Added Entry-Corporate Name:

  Osprey Publishing