Romain Cansiere, Ed Gilbert

Blanc Mont Ridge 1918

America's forgotten victory
Illustrator: Turner, Graham

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The dominating Blanc Mont Ridge complex in the Champagne region of France was home to some of the most complex German defences on the Western Front. Its heights offered artillery observation that made even approaching the ridge virtually suicidal. Pessimistic about the ability of depleted and demoralized French units to capture the position, Général Henri Gouraud was granted the use of two American divisions: the veteran 2nd "Indianhead" Division, including the 4th (Marine) Brigade, and the untested 36th "Arrowhead" Division of the Texas and Oklahoma National Guard. This fully illustrated book describes this Allied offensive with American troops in the vanguard, and shows how despite the heavy losses it sustained to both manpower and supporting armour, they eventually forced the Germans to abandon most of the region in one of the largest withdrawals of the war.

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Produktdetails

• Campaign
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 182mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 306g
• ISBN-13: 9781472824967
• ISBN-10: 1472824962
• Artikelnr.: 49092752

Autorenporträt

Romain Cansière, Ed Gilbert

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chronology
Opposing commanders
Opposing armies
Opposing plans
The campaign
Aftermath
The battlefield today
Further reading
Index