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

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    • Fax, Gene

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

Gene Fax

Osprey Pub., 2017

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 455-483) and index

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内容説明

With Their Bare Hands traces the fate of the US 79th Division-men drafted off the streets of Baltimore, Washington, and Philadelphia-from boot camp in Maryland through the final years of World War I, focusing on their most famous engagement: the attack on Montfaucon, the most heavily fortified part of the German Line, during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in 1918. Using the 79th as a window onto the American Army as a whole, Gene Fax examines its mistakes and triumphs, the tactics of its commander General John J. Pershing, and how the lessons it learned during the Great War helped it to fight World War II. Fax makes some startling judgments, on the role of future Army Chief-of-Staff, Colonel George C. Marshall; whether the Montfaucon battle-had it followed the plan-could have shortened the war; and if Pershing was justified in ordering his troops to attack right up to the moment of the Armistice. Drawing upon original documents, including orders, field messages, and the letters and memoirs of the soldiers themselves, some of which have never been used before, Fax tells the engrossing story of the 79th Division's bloody involvement in the final months of World War I.

目次

Prologue Introduction Chapter 1: Setting the Stage Chapter 2: War Comes to Baltimore Chapter 3:Creating an Army Chapter 4: What Pershing Should Have Known Chapter 5: Training - The Army at War with Itself Chapter 6: Americans Reach the Battlefield Chapter 7: First Army Takes the Field Chapter 8: Concentration Chapter 9: The Germans Chapter 10: Over the Top and Up the Hill, September 26 Chapter 11: Left, Right, and Straight Ahead, September 26 Chapter 12: "Montfaucon Taken", September 27 Chapter 13: Bois de Beuge and Nantillois, September 28 Chapter 14: Bois 250 and Madeleine Farm, September 29-30 Chapter 15: Interlude - Troyon Sector, October 1-28 Chapter 16: Borne de Cornouiller and the Heights of the Meuse, October 29-November 10 Chapter 15: Armistice to Home, November 11, 1918-June 4, 1919 Epilogue Appendices Notes Bibliography Index

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