Author: Edward G. Lengel
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Keywords: argonne, meuse, hell, conquer
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2008-01-08
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 0805079319
ISBN-13: 9780805079319

The authoritative, dramatic, and previously untold story of the bloodiest battle in American history: the epic fight for the Meuse-Argonne in World War I On September 26, 1918, more than one million American soldiers prepared to assault the German-held Meuse-Argonne region of France. Their commander, General John J. Pershing, believed in the superiority of American "guts" over barbed wire, machine guns, massed artillery, and poison gas. In thirty-six hours, he said, the Doughboys would crack the German defenses and open the road to Berlin. Six weeks later, after savage fighting across swamps,

Author: ROBERT H. FERRELL
Publisher: University of Missouri
Keywords: memoir, argonne, meuse, youth
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2000-08-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0826212905
ISBN-13: 9780826212900

A Youth in the Meuse-Argonne is a firsthand account of World War I through the eyes of an enlisted soldier. William S. Triplet was a seventeen-year-old junior in high school when, on April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked for a declaration of war. Passed by Congress and signed by the nation’s chief executive four days later, this declaration stirred the superintendent of schools in Triplet’s hometown of Sedalia, Missouri, to make an emotional plea to all eligible students to join the armed forces. "Any student who felt called upon to fight, bleed, and die for his country cou

Author: Robert H. Ferrell
Publisher: University of Missouri
Keywords: kansas, division, missouri, failure, meuse, argonne, collapse
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2004-06-25
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0826215327
ISBN-13: 9780826215321

During World War I, the Thirty-fifth Division was made up of National Guard units from Missouri and Kansas. Composed of thousands of men from the two states, the Missouri-Kansas Division entered the great battle of the Meuse-Argonne with no battle experience and only a small amount of training, a few weeks of garrisoning in a quiet sector in Alsace. The division fell apart in five days, and the question Robert Ferrell attempts to answer is why. By focusing on a single event in history, Collapse at Meuse-Argonne offers a unique glimpse into one of the most critical battles of World War I.

Author: United States War Dept. General States
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: champagne, argonne, meuse, mont, blanc
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2009-07-17
List price: $16.75
ISBN-10: 1113282630
ISBN-13: 9781113282637

Author: P.H. Nienhui
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: environmental, climate, coping, change, sea, rise, level, relations, evolving, rhine, history, meuse, delta, story, ecological, human
Number of Pages: 642
Published: 2008-05-21
List price: $219.00
ISBN-10: 1402082118
ISBN-13: 9781402082115

This book presents the environmental history of the Delta of the lowland rivers Rhine and Meuse, an ecological story on evolving human-environmental relations coping with climate change and sea-level rise. It offers a combination of in depth ecology and environmental history, dealing with exploitation of land and water, the use of everything nature provided, the development of fisheries and agriculture, changes in biodiversity of higher plants, fish, birds, mammals, and invasive exotics. The book is unique: it is the first book written in English on the integrated environmental history of the