Thunder in the Argonne : a new history of America's greatest battle /
In July 1918, sensing that the German Army had lost crucial momentum, Supreme Allied Commander Ferdinand Foch saw an opportunity to end the First World War. In drafting his plans for a final grand offensive, he assigned the most difficult sectorthe dense Argonne forest and the vast Meuse River valle...
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Lexington, Kentucky :
The University Press of Kentucky,
[2018]
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