In 9 AD, in the depths of the Teutoberg Forest, a confederacy of Germanic tribes ambushed and annihilated a force of three Roman legions (read about the battle in Schama’s Landscape and Memory and you will have Anselm Kiefer nightmares) in the fall and winter of 1944 a number of US divisions bled out in the Hürtgen Forest, where the Germans had nested machine gun teams in cunningly camouflaged log redoubts and artil Never fight the Russians in their snow – or the Germans in a forest stronghold. Never fight the Russians in their snow – or the Germans in a forest stronghold. It is military history of the first rank and, incredibly, the first in-depth account of this fascinating and important battle.more To Conquer Hell is gripping in its accounts of combat, studded with portraits of remarkable soldiers like Pershing, Harry Truman, George Patton, and Alvin York, and authoritative in presenting the big picture. In the bloodiest battle the country had ever seen, an entire generation of young Americans had been transformed forever.
The Meuse-Argonne had fallen, at the cost of more than 120,000 American casualties, including 26,000 dead. Six weeks later, after savage fighting across swamps, forests, towns, and rugged hills, the battle finally ended with the signing of the armistice that concluded the First World War. In thirty-six hours, he said, the Doughboys would crack the German defenses and open the road to Berlin. Pershing, believed in the superiority of American "guts" over barbed wire, machine guns, massed artillery, and poison gas.
On September 26, 1918, more than one million American soldiers prepared to assault the German-held Meuse-Argonne region of France.
Pershing, believed in the superiority of American "guts" 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 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.
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