Isbn: 9781472829795 - with Their Bare Hands: General Pershing, the 79th Division, and the Battle for Montfaucon (13 results)

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Paperback. Condition: New. Reprint. New tightly bound softcover in printed wraps. 8vo.( 6.14 x 1.53 x 9.34 inches) Clean text free of marks or underling. B&W photo plates. Includes Appendices [2], source notes, bibliography and an index. 495 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. With Their Bare Hands traces the fate of the US 79th Division--men drafted off the streets of Baltimore, Washington, and Philadelphia--from their training 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 into the American Army as a whole, Gene Fax examines its mistakes and triumphs, the tactics of the AEF Commander-in-Chief 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. .…

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