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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818034603321

Autore

Baker Horace L (Horace Leonard), <1893-1948.>

Titolo

Argonne days in World War I / / Horace L. Baker ; edited with an introduction by Robert H. Ferrell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8262-6575-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (175 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

FerrellRobert H

Disciplina

940.4/36

Soggetti

Argonne, Battle of the, France, 1918

World War, 1914-1918 - Regimental histories - United States

World War, 1914-1918

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Rev. of the 1927 ed. published by Aberdeen Weekly.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-153) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Argonne Days in World War I -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Chatonrupt -- 2. Lavoye -- 3. A Long Night March -- 4. The First Day of the Meuse-Argonne -- 5. Bivouac and March -- 6. In Support -- 7. In the Front Line -- 8. In the Harness Lodge Woods -- 9. North of Cierges -- 10. Over the Top -- 11. Romagne -- 12. Relief -- 13. Cheppywald -- 14. The Last Drive -- 15. Brandeville -- 16. Alone in No-man's-land -- 17. Ecurey -- 18. Peuvillers -- 19. Armistice Day -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"A straightforward World War I memoir by Horace Baker, a Mississippi schoolteacher who took ship for France in the spring of 1918 as a private in the American Expeditionary Forces and soon fought with the Thirty-second Division in General Pershing's offensive at the battle of Meuse-Argonne"--Provided by publisher.