Never in Finer Company: The Men of the Great War's Lost Battalion Classics the British fought an extraordinary

the British fought an extraordinary holding action against oncoming Germans

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more than one million American soldiers prepared to assault the German-held Meuse-Argonne region of France

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Never in Finer Company: The Men of the Great War's Lost Battalion Classics the British fought an extraordinaryDescription by Edward G. Lengel Paperback In the first week of October, 1918, six hundred men attacked into Europe's forbidding Argonne Forest. Against all odds, they surged through enemy lines alone. They were soon surrounded and besieged. As they ran out of ammunition, water, and food, the doughboys withstood constant bombardment and relentless enemy assaults. Seven days later, only 194 soldiers from the original unit walked out of the forest. The