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  • The Meuse Heights to the Armistice

    The American Expeditionary Forces in the Great War

    by Maarten Otte ...
    Series series Battleground The Americans 1918
    "Maarten is a deeply knowledgeable historian of the WWI fighting in the Meuse region from end to end . . . The details provided in the book are amazing." — Battles of the First World War PodcastThe Americans had considerable initial success when they launched their huge offensive against the Germans in the Meuse-Argonne in the last days of September 1918. However, not everything went smoothly and ... Read more

    $9.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The American Expeditionary Forces in WWI, Meuse-Argonne

    Montfaucon

    by Maarten Otte ...
    Series series Battleground The Americans 1918
    Any visitor to the site of the bloodiest battle in the history of the United States will be drawn to Montfaucon, for it is here that General Pershing, the Commander in Chief, determined that the major memorial to the American Expeditionary Forces would be sited. The impressive classical column, erected on the summit of Montfaucon Hill, can be seen from many parts of the battlefield of the Meuse ... Read more

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  • The American Expeditionary Forces in the Great War

    Meuse Argonne 1918: Breaking the Line

    by Maarten Otte ...
    Series series Battleground The Americans 1918
    "An invaluable and extraordinary" account of the bloodiest battle in American military history ( Midwest Book Review).Although the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, which began in late September 1918 and continued through to the Armistice, was not the first major action fought by the AEF, it was the greatest in which it engaged in the Great War.The Argonne was an area that had been heavily fought over, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1918 – The Americans Under French Command

    The Champagne-Argonne Offensives: Blanc Mont, Marines and African-Americans

    by Maarten Otte ...
    Examines lesser-known American Expeditionary Forces battles in the Champagne–Marne region during World War I.Pershing’s aim had always been to fight the Germans with an independent American Army (the AEF, the American Expeditionary Forces) instead of dividing his divisions between the allies. When the Germans launched the first attack of their Spring Offensives on 21 March 1918, he was still far ... Read more

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  • Belleau Wood and Vaux

    1 to 26 June & July 1918

    by Maarten Otte ...
    Profusely illustrated by contemporary photographs and numerous maps, the narrative supplemented by a number of first hand accounts; the whole is supported by several walking and car tours. The Battle of Belleau Wood has a prominent place in the history of the United States Marine Corps; it took place between 6 and 27 June 1918 (sometimes considered to be 1-26 June). However, when on 6 June 1918 ... Read more

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  • The St. Mihiel Offensive

    12 to 16 September 1918

    by Maarten Otte ...
    Series series Battleground The Americans 1918
    An account of the American Expeditionary Force's attack and "an excellent guide to trace the locations of one of the last great battles of the Great War" ( On the Old Barbed Wire).The St. Mihiel Offensive, which took place between the 12th and 16th September 1918, was the first full-scale attack that was under the direct command of the Americans, in the person of General J. Pershing. He combined ... Read more

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  • The Franco-Prussian War, 1870–1871

    Touring the Sedan Campaign

    by Maarten Otte ...
    Series series Battleground 1870–1871
    "Masterfully written . . . This series provides the enthusiast and historian with volumes in which history is combined with tourism on the battlefields." — On the Old Barbed WireIn 1870 France embarked on a war with Prussia and her allied German states that was to be a complete disaster. For Napoleon III, after his ignominious surrender with thousands of his troops from the Army of the Rhine and ... Read more

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    by Nigel Cave, Jack Sheldon ...
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  • Fallschirmjager

    Elite German Paratroops in World War II

    by Jon Sutherland, Diane Canwell ...
    Series series Images of War
    A rare collection of personal photographs following Nazi Germany's airborne soldiers on their missions through the Balkans, Crete, and Russia.The photos in this book are taken from an unpublished album that belonged to a member of the elite German Paratroopers. First Sgt Wilhelm Plieschen served with Fallschirmjager Machine Gun Battalion 7, which suffered very heavy losses in the invasion of Crete ... Read more

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  • The Atlantic Wall

    History and Guide

    by J. E. Kaufmann, H. W. Kaufmann, A. Jankovic-Potocnik, Vladimir Tonic ...
    This WWII history and visitor's guide explores the extensive network of Nazi fortifications built to defend Fortress Europe.Hitler's Atlantic Wall, the complex system of coastal fortifications that stretched from Norway to the Spanish border during the Second World War, was built to defend occupied Europe from Allied invasion. Many of its principal structures survive and can be visited today. This ... Read more

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  • Cherbourg

    by Andrew Rawson ...
    Series series Battleground Europe
    Following the landings in Normandy, one of the Allies main concerns was how to supply the expanding beachhead. Having cut off the Cotentin peninsula, General Bradley turned his attentions to the port of Cherbourg, the deep-water port nearest to the American landing beaches. However, Hitler had given specific orders that the port must be held until the last man. For over two weeks three divisions ... Read more

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  • D-Day 1944 (3)

    Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings

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