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The 4th Marine Brigade at Belleau Wood and Soissons - History and Battlefield Guide (Paperback)
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The 4th Marine Brigade at Belleau Wood and Soissons - History and Battlefield Guide (Paperback)
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The battles of Belleau Wood and Soissons in June and July of 1918
marked a turning point in World War I and in the stature of the US
Marine Corps, whose fighting proved so critical in repelling the
Germans that the French would later rename Belleau 'Bois de la
Brigade de Marine.' In this book J. Michael Miller, a historian of
the Marine Corps and veteran chronicler of battle, takes us to the
battlefields of Belleau Wood and Soissons, immersing us in the
experience of a single brigade of marines at the forefront of the
fighting. Through a close-up look at the doughboys' singular impact
on Allied victory in 1918, his work illuminates America's bloody
sacrifice during World War I. The 4th Marine Brigade at Belleau
Wood and Soissons for the first time treats these two battles as
one campaign and demonstrates why it is impossible to fully
understand one without the other. Miller outlines the company and
platoon levels of combat throughout the campaign, establishing a
basic tactical understanding of the fighting; he also draws on
letters, diaries, memoirs, and interviews to create a vivid and
personal reconstruction of the battles. His use of French and
German sources, also a first, adds unprecedented insights to this
boots-on-the-ground account. The book includes detailed mapping of
both battlefields, with a thirty-six-stop guide linking the text
with the actual terrain. For each of these stops Miller gives GPS
coordinates to provide a virtual tour of the sites he discusses.
With its strategic overview and ground-level perspective, Miller'
work suggests a new interpretation and offers a new experience of
an iconic moment in American military history - and in the story of
the Marine Corps.
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