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The Americans in Action, 1918-The First Battles - Cantigny, Chateau Thierry & the Second Battle of the Marne with Additional Illustrations by Jean Bern (Hardcover)
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The Americans in Action, 1918-The First Battles - Cantigny, Chateau Thierry & the Second Battle of the Marne with Additional Illustrations by Jean Bern (Hardcover)
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The American drive towards victory on the Western Front
This unique Leonaur book brings together 'The Turn of the Tide by
Jennings Wise, ' an excellent history of some of the decisive
battles fought by American forces on the Western Front in 1918, and
the separately published portfolio of first-rate illustrations of
the American Expeditionary Force in action during that period by
Jean Berne-Bellecour. By the end of 1914 the die was cast in Europe
for a war of stalemate on the Western Front. Inevitably generals on
both sides sought battlefield solutions, but the lines remained
almost static, with the armies grappling over entrenched positions
of barbed-wire fringed mud. Inevitably the realisation came that
this was a true war of attrition. There would be no decisive
manoeuvre and the outcome would be determined by which nations
would run out of men, materials and food first. Germany could see
how the allies depended upon supplies from the United States of
America and deployed its U-Boat wolf-packs to the Atlantic Ocean to
disrupt shipping. By 1917 this strategy was close to success and
the allied cause was in jeopardy. There can be little doubt that
American entry into the war was the key to Allied victory. Both men
and materials arrived, crossing the ocean protected by the might of
a naval presence that only the USA could now muster. After three
years of neutrality, the Americans-it has to be said-came not to
fight the war, but to win it. This was an industrial war as no
previous war had been, and this book traces the fiercely contested
battles that became iconic for the Americans who served in Europe.
Here are the battles of the summer of 1918 including the taking of
Cantigny, the battles of Chateau Thierry and the famous Belleau
Wood, Hill 204 and the counter-offensive which was the Second
Battle of the Marne. This book includes many battlefield maps to
assist the modern reader.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
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