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| #849839 in Books | Bison Books | 2000-05-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.84 x5.25l,.86 | File type: PDF | 338 pages | ||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| World War One's "Bastogne"|By Richard Sibley|The "Lost Battalion" (a journalist's term that caught on) were 554, or so, American soldiers who held out against German forces surrounding them for five days -- deep in the Argonne Forest -- in 1918. They ran out of food after two days, but they refused to surrender. By the end, 360 had been killed, wounded, taken sick from living||
“[In October 1918] the Seventy-seventh American Division attacked in the Argonne. One mixed battalion of companies from two regiments got as far as it could. Germans closed in the rear, surrounding 600 men. Six days later, after incredible hardships
For a generation the Lost Battalion exemplified the best of America’s involvement in World War I. Until World War II pushed the Lost Battalion out of the national memory with its own scenes of horror and heroism, mention of the unit’s name summoned up what America admired in its soldiers: unpretentious courage, dogged resistance, and good cheer and adaptation under adversity.
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Lost Battalion | Thomas M. Johnson, Fletcher Pratt.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
