Blood in the Argonne

<p>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.</p><p> 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.</p><p>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.</p><p></p>