In this unique history of the "Lost Battalion" of World War I,
Alan D. Gaff tells for the first time the story of the 77th
Division from the perspective of the soldiers in the ranks.
On October 2, 1918, Maj. Charles W. Whittlesey led the 77th
Division in a successful attack on German defenses in the Argonne
Forest of northeastern France. His unit, comprised of men of a wide
mix of ethnic backgrounds from New York City and the western
states, was not a battalion nor was it ever "lost," but once a
newspaper editor applied the term "lost battalion" to the episode,
it stuck.
Gaff draws from new, unimpeachable sources--such as sworn
testimony by soldiers who survived the ordeal--to correct the myths
and legends and to reveal what really happened in the Argonne
Forest during early October 1918.
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