02102cam a2200325 4500 289829532 TxAuBib 20170418120000.0 151109s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015039121 9780451466952 0451466950 (OCoLC)911068453 TxAuBib Yockelson, Mitchell A., 1962- Forty-seven days : how Pershing's warriors came of age to defeat the German Army in World War I / Mitchell Yockelson. 47 days. New York, New York : NAL Caliber/New American Library, [2016] ℗2016. ix, 390 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-379) and index. Black Jack -- First Army is born -- St. Mihiel -- Preparing for America's greatest battle -- On with the battle -- Advance! -- Behind the lines -- No progress -- Fighting in the Argonne -- There is much fighting ahead -- Regrouping First Army -- Resuming the attack -- Now we are making headway -- The end is near -- First Army has come of age -- The battle will be over today. The Battle of the Meuse-Argonne is the deadliest clash in American history: more than a million untested American soldiers went up against a better-trained and experienced German army, resulting in more than twenty-six thousand deaths and leaving nearly a hundred thousand wounded. Yet in forty-seven days of intense combat, these Americans forced the Germans to surrender, bringing the First World War to an end. Historian Mitchell Yockelson tells how General John J. 2Black Jack3 Pershings exemplary leadership led to the unlikeliest of victories. 20170418. United States Army American Expeditionary Forces. World War, 1914-1918 United States. World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Western Front. Argonne, Battle of the, France, 1918. TXCAN