The Great War in the Argonne Forest: French and American Battles, 1914-1918

This vividly written account of the epic four-year campaign is "particularly worth reading [for] aspects of the Great War rarely discussed in other texts" —Roads to the Great War

The annals of the First World War record the Argonne Forest as the epicenter of the famous Meuse-Argonne offensive of 1918, the largest American operation launched against the Germans during the conflict. During 1914 and 1915 though, amid the dense forest, French and Italian soldiers withstood the German assaults. ...