Lafayette We Are Here!
6th June 1918: The American Marines Attack Belleau Wood
Erschienen am 23. Mai 2022
160 Seiten
978-1-915054-69-2 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
6th June 1918 saw more American soldiers fall on French soil than the famous 1944 D-Day landings. Why is this fact so little known?
As well as providing a detailed account of this funereal episode, Lafayette We Are Here! looks at the reasons behind American involvement in what was primarily a European conflict. Why did a neutral government in 1914, driven by a largely pacifist population, end up joining the Allies in 1917?
In this third instalment of his trilogy concerning the deadliest days of the First World War, Jean-Michel Steg investigates a cataclysmic battle for the American Marines in a small wood in northern France, and presents an informative and accessible overview of the military strategy and geopolitical context.
As well as providing a detailed account of this funereal episode, Lafayette We Are Here! looks at the reasons behind American involvement in what was primarily a European conflict. Why did a neutral government in 1914, driven by a largely pacifist population, end up joining the Allies in 1917?
In this third instalment of his trilogy concerning the deadliest days of the First World War, Jean-Michel Steg investigates a cataclysmic battle for the American Marines in a small wood in northern France, and presents an informative and accessible overview of the military strategy and geopolitical context.
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Sprache
Englisch
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London
Großbritannien
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Legend Press Ltd
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1,62 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-915054-69-2 (9781915054692)
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Inhalt
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction 'Lafayette, We Are Here!'
- Chapter 1 Belleau Wood, 6 June 1918, Dawn
- Chapter 2 6 June 1918, 17.00 The Attack
- Chapter 3 The Battle of Belleau Wood Rages On
- Chapter 4 Early 1917 The State of the Conflict on the Eve of the United States' Entry into the War
- Chapter 5 Why Didn't the United States Enter the War in August 1914?
- Chapter 6 The American Army before It Entered the War
- Chapter 7 The United States Slides into War
- Chapter 8 The German General Staff's Strategic Gamble
- Chapter 9 Preparing the American Intervention
- Chapter 10 The German Spring Offensive of 1918 and the American Baptism of Fire
- Chapter 11 What Was the True Military Impact of the Battle of Belleau Wood?
- Chapter 12 The Last Hundred Days of the War
- Chapter 13 After the Armistice, then the Treaty of Versailles
- Chapter 14 War's End for the United States
- Post-Mortem
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Endnotes
