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100 1 $aLengel, Edward G.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001045678
245 10 $aTo conquer hell :$bthe Meuse-Argonne, 1918 /$cEdward G. Lengel.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bH. Holt,$c2008.
300 $axiv, 491 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [459]-471) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$t"All the Promotion in the World Would Make No Difference Now" /$rJohn J. Pershing -- $gCh. 2.$tThe Cult of the Attack -- $gCh. 3.$t"Right or Wrong, My Country" -- $gCh. 4.$t"Retreat, Hell. We Just Got Here" -- $gCh. 5.$t"An Independent American Army" -- $gCh. 6.$t"Here Is the Golden Dream"; The Meuse-Argonne -- $gCh. 7.$t"The Only Way to Begin Is to Commence" -- $tPhase One: September 26-30 -- $gCh. 8.$t"You Boys Are My Kind. Now Let's Go In!" September 26 -- $gCh. 9.$t"We Began to Realize What Artillery Really Meant." September 27 -- $gCh. 10.$t"Words Can Never Describe It, Nor Is the Mind Imaginative Enough to Conceive It." September 28 -- $gCh. 11.$t"There Were Very Few Heroes That Morning." September 29 -- $gCh. 12.$tRelief September 30 -- $tPhase Two: October 4-6 -- $gCh. 13.$t"God Damn It, Don't You Know We're Going Over the Top." October 4 -- $gCh. 14.$tThe Lost Battalion: "Our Mission Is to Hold This Position at All Costs" -- $gCh. 15.$t"Just Plain Murder." October 5 235 -- $gCh. 16.$t"It Is Not a Dishonorable Deed to Give Up." October 6 -- $tPhase Three: October 7-11 -- $gCh. 17.$t"Their Faces Told the Whole Story of Their Fight." October 7 -- $gCh. 18.$t"York, I Hear You Have Captured the Whole Damned German Army." October 8 -- $gCh. 19.$t"We Are Going to Have a Very Hard Day." October 9 -- $gCh. 20.$tBeyond the Argonne. October 10 -- $gCh. 21.$tLast Gasp. October 11 -- $tPhase Four: October 12-15 -- $gCh. 22.$t"Like the Heat from a Blast-Furnace Door." October 12-13 -- $gCh. 23.$t"The Best Day's Work." October 14 -- $gCh. 24.$t"There Are Times When Even General Officers Have to Be Expendable." October 15 -- $tPhase Five October 16-31 -- $gCh. 25.$t"Large Bodies Move Slowly, Though with Great Momentum When They Start" -- $tVictory: November 1-11 -- $tConclusion: "When I Get Back, You Can Wager I Will Be a Home Loving Man"
520 1 $a"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, forests, towns, and rugged hills, the battle finally ended with the signing of the armistice that concluded the First World War. The Meuse-Argonne had fallenat the cost of more than 120,000 American casualties, including 26,000 dead. In the bloodiest battle the country had ever seen, an entire generation of young Americans had been transformed forever," "To Conquer Hell is gripping in its accounts of combat, studded with portraits of remarkable soldiers like Pershing, Harry Truman, George Patton, Alvin York, Douglas MacArthur, and many other less well known soldiers, and authoritative in its presentation of the big picture. It is military history of the first rank and, incredibly, the first in-depth account of this fascinating and important battle."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aArgonne, Battle of the, France, 1918.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007115
650 0 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xCampaigns$zMeuse River Valley.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010007621
610 10 $aUnited States.$bArmy$xHistory$yWorld War, 1914-1918.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0720/2007024461.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0740/2007024461-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0740/2007024461-d.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hD545.A63$iL46 2008