Blood in the Argonne: The "Lost Battalion" of World War I (Volume 8) (Campaigns and Commanders Serie

In this unique history of the “Lost Battalion” of World War I, Alan D. Gaff tells for the first time the story of the 77th Division from the perspective of the soldiers in the ranks.

On October 2, 1918, Maj. Charles W. Whittlesey led the 77th Division in a successful attack on German defenses in the Argonne Forest of northeastern France. His unit, comprised of men of a wide mix of ethnic backgrounds from New York City and the western states, was not a battalion nor was it ever “lost,” but once a newspaper editor applied the term “lost battalion” to the episode, it stuck.

Gaff draws from new, unimpeachable sources―such as sworn testimony by soldiers who survived the ordeal―to correct the myths and legends and to reveal what really happened in the Argonne Forest during early October 1918.

• The Lost Battalion: Return to the Charlevaux
• Forty-Seven Days: How Pershing's Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I
• First Over There: The Attack on Cantigny, America's First Battle of World War I
• Rock of the Marne: The American Soldiers Who Turned the Tide Against the Kaiser in World War I
• The Lost Battalion
• Alvin York: A New Biography of the Hero of the Argonne (American Warrior Series)
• Thunder in the Argonne: A New History of America's Greatest Battle (Battles and Campaigns Series)
• Finding the Lost Battalion: Beyond the Rumors, Myths and Legends of America's Famous WW1 Epic
• Never in Finer Company: The Men of the Great War's Lost Battalion