With Their Bare Hands

General Pershing, the 79th Division, and the battle for Montfaucon

Gene Fax (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

496 Seiten

2018
Osprey Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4728-2979-5 (ISBN)

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With Their Bare Hands traces the fate of the US 79th Division – men drafted off the streets of Baltimore, Washington, and Philadelphia – from boot camp in Maryland through the final years of World War I, focusing on their most famous engagement: the attack on Montfaucon, the most heavily fortified part of the German Line, during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in 1918.

Using the 79th as a window into the American Army as a whole, Gene Fax examines its mistakes and triumphs, the tactics of its commander General John J. Pershing, and how the lessons it learned during the Great War helped it to fight World War II. Fax makes some startling judgments, on the role of future Army Chief-of-Staff, Colonel George C. Marshall; whether the Montfaucon battle – had it followed the plan – could have shortened the war; and if Pershing was justified in ordering his troops to attack right up to the moment of the Armistice.
Drawing upon original documents, including orders, field messages, and the letters and memoirs of the soldiers themselves, Fax tells the engrossing story of the 79th Division’s bloody involvement in the final months of World War I.

During his 45 years in the policy research industry, Gene Fax has written more than 200 research reports, policy papers, and competitive proposals and has edited hundreds more. An engineering graduate of MIT, he spent eight years conducting research and tactical studies in anti-submarine warfare for the US Navy. He is the co-founder of The Cadmus Group, Inc., which specializes in program development, evaluation, and policy research in environmental protection, energy efficiency, and sustainable development. He lives in New York, USA In preparation for With Their Bare Hands, Gene spent seventeen years researching archives in Washington, Baltimore, Paris, West Point, and Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He also researched this most bloody and fiercely contested battle on the battlefield itself.

Prologue
Introduction
Chapter 1: Setting the Stage
Chapter 2: War Comes to Baltimore
Chapter 3:Creating an Army
Chapter 4: What Pershing Should Have Known
Chapter 5: Training – The Army at War with Itself
Chapter 6: Americans Reach the Battlefield
Chapter 7: First Army Takes the Field
Chapter 8: Concentration
Chapter 9: The Germans
Chapter 10: Over the Top and Up the Hill, September 26
Chapter 11: Left, Right, and Straight Ahead, September 26
Chapter 12: "Montfaucon Taken", September 27
Chapter 13: Bois de Beuge and Nantillois, September 28
Chapter 14: Bois 250 and Madeleine Farm, September 29–30
Chapter 15: Interlude – Troyon Sector, October 1–28
Chapter 16: Borne de Cornouiller and the Heights of the Meuse, October 29–November 10
Chapter 15: Armistice to Home, November 11, 1918–June 4, 1919
Epilogue
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.06.2018
Zusatzinfo	Section of black-and-white images.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 234 mm
Gewicht	720 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-4728-2979-4 / 1472829794
ISBN-13	978-1-4728-2979-5 / 9781472829795
Zustand	Neuware