A Companion to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Lengel, Edward G.

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Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign explores the single largest and bloodiest battle in American military history, including its many controversies, in historiographical essays that reflect the current state of the field. * Presents original essays on the French and German participation in and perspectives on this important event * Makes use of original archival research from the United States, France, and Germany * Contributors include WWI scholars from France, Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom * Essays examine the military, social, and political consequences of the Meuse-Argonne and points the way for future scholarship in this area

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 552
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118836392
• Artikelnr.: 44449287

Autorenporträt

Edward G. Lengel Edward G. Lengel is Professor and Editor in Chief of the Papers of George Washington documentary editing project at the University of Virginia, and has edited several volumes of the Washington Papers. He is the author of six books, including World War I Memories: An Annotated Bibliography of Personal Accounts Published in English Since 1919 (2004), To Conquer Hell: The Meuse-Argonne, 1918 (2008), This Glorious Struggle: George Washington's Revolutionary War Letters (2008), and Inventing George Washington: America's Founder in Myth and Memory (2011). He is editor of A Companion to George Washington (2012, Wiley-Blackwell).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors Viii Introduction 1 Edward G. Lengel Part I The Big
Picture 5 1 Background to the Meuse-Argonne 7 Edward G. Lengel with James
Lacey 2 Preparations 21 Brian F. Neumann Part II Combat 37 3 The Chance of
a Miracle at Montfaucon 39 William T. Walker, Jr. 4 The Battle of Blanc
Mont 59 Christopher A. Shaw 5 The Lost Battalion 74 Kevin Mulberger and
Edward G. Lengel 6 Clearing the Argonne 85 Edward A. Gutiérrez 7 Cracking
the Kriemhilde Stellung: The Combined Actions of the 5th, 32d, and 42d
Divisions 103 Nathan A. Jones 8 Storming the Heights of the Meuse: The 29th
and 33d Divisions Fight for Control of the High Ground, 8-16 October 121
James S. Price 9 Breakthrough and Pursuit 140 Lon Strauss 10 African
Americans in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive 159 Chad Williams 11 Heroes of the
Meuse-Argonne 179 James Carl Nelson 12 "Oh, she's a rather rough war, boys,
but she's better than no war at all": The Meuse-Argonne Offensive and the
Diarists of the Rainbow Division 194 E. Bruce Geelhoed Part III France and
Germany in the Meuse-Argonne 213 13 The French Fourth Army in the
Meuse-Argonne Campaign 215 Elizabeth Greenhalgh 14 The 111th (German)
Infanterie-Regiment by Exermont 232 Randal S. Gaulke 15 The 459th (German)
Infanterie-Regiment on the Hindenburg Line 248 Randal S. Gaulke 16 The
German High Command during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive: 26 September.31
October 1918 266 Markus Klauer Part IV Perspectives 285 17 "There is a
limit to human endurance": The Challenges to Morale in the Meuse-Argonne
Campaign 287 Richard S. Faulkner 18 Airpower during the Meuse-Argonne
Offensive: 26 September-11 November 1918 309 Thomas Withington 19 French
Armored Support during the First Phase of the Campaign 325 Patrick R.
Osborn 20 Artillery in the Meuse-Argonne 340 Justin G. Prince 21 Infantry
Tactics in the Meuse-Argonne 357 Jeffrey LaMonica 22 Medical Support for
the Meuse-Argonne 374 Sanders Marble 23 Meuse-Argonne Logistics: Barely
Enough, Just in Time, Just Long Enough 390 Larry A. Grant 24 Communications
in World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Campaign of 1918 410 William P. McEvoy 25
We Can Kill Them but We Cannot Stop Them: Evaluating the Meuse-Argonne
Campaign 425 John D. Beatty Part V Lessons 441 26 Changing Views on the
Meuse-Argonne Offensive 443 Douglas Mastriano 27 Lessons Learned 457
Michael S. Neiberg 28 Remembering and Forgetting Meuse-Argonne: The
Shifting Sands and Partitioned Perspectives of Memory 472 Kathy Warnes 29
The Greatest Battle Ever Forgotten: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive and
American Memory 496 Steven Trout Index 515