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02132aam a2200313Ii 4500 001 1C5FDA74817F11E79428AD3997128E48 003 SILO 005 20170815010034 008 170306s2017 enkab 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1472819233 020 $a 9781472819239 035 $a (OCoLC)974643097 040 $a IMR $e rda $c IMR $d ORL $d SILO 100 1 $a Fax, Gene, $e author. 245 10 $a With their bare hands : $b General Pershing, the 79th Division, and the battle for Montfaucon / $c Gene Fax. 264 1 $a Oxford, England : $b Osprey Publishing, $c ââ2017. 300 $a 495 pages : $b illustrations (black and white), maps ; $c 24 cm. 520 $a After the American declaration of war in 1917, two million US troops were deployed to France - among them the recently drafted 79th Division. These men, raw recruits from the streets of Boston, Washington, DC, and Philadelphia, were plunged into the hell of trench warfare. With just seven weeks of combat experience, they were thrown into their most important and bloody battle of the Meuse-Argonne offensive - the attack on Montfaucon, the highest and most heavily fortified part of the German line. Gene Fax's ground-breaking narrative tells the full story of these men and their commanders from the 1917 draft right through to the end of the war. Using the division as a window on the US Army as a whole, Fax reveals both its mistakes and its triumphs, and how the lessons it learned ultimately helped it to fight World War II. -- back cover. 600 10 $a Pershing, John J. $q (John Joseph), $d 1860-1948. 610 10 $a United States. $b Infantry Division, 79th $b Infantry Division, 79th $x History. 610 10 $a United States. $b Division, 79th. $b Division, 79th. 650 0 $a World War, 1914-1918 $x Regimental histories $z United States. 650 0 $a World War, 1914-1918 $x Campaigns $z Meuse. $z Meuse. 650 0 $a Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous $x War use. 941 $a 3 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240702022827.0 952 $l FMPC224 $d 20171019010618.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20170815010930.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1C5FDA74817F11E79428AD3997128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search