Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Author’s Note

US Army Ranks and Unit Structure, 1917–1918

Epigraph

MAP: THE WESTERN FRONT

MAP: AMERICAN AND GERMAN LINES AROUND CANTIGNY

Prelude: A Speech

Chapter 1. Let ’em Come

MAP: GERMAN RAID ON COMPANY E

Chapter 2. The Advance Guard

Chapter 3. Must Not Fail

Chapter 4. Adventure of War

Chapter 5. Life and Death

Chapter 6. Marshall’s First Plan

MAP: THE INFANTRY PLAN OF ATTACK

MAP: ORIGINAL ARTILLERY MAP DEPICTING TIMETABLE FOR CREEPING BARRAGE

MAP: LOCATION OF STRONGPOINTS & PATH OF TANK ATTACK

Chapter 7. A Hellish Clamor

Chapter 8. Zero Hour

Chapter 9. Second Wave

Chapter 10. We Took the Hill

Chapter 11. A Pack of Bumblebees

MAP: PROGRESS OF THE INFANTRY DURING FIRST HOURS

Chapter 12. Ignore the Bullets

Chapter 13. Half Crazy, Temporarily Insane

Chapter 14. The World Is Watching

Chapter 15. Novelty of Silence

Chapter 16. Final Determined Effort

MAP: NEW AMERICAN LINES AROUND CANTIGNY

Epilogue: Until We Meet Again

Acknowledgments

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Photographs

About the Author

Copyright