Never in Finer Company: The Men of the Great War's Lost Battalion Classics But his fiction became accepted

But his fiction became accepted as fact

contrary to another persistent myth of the First World War in the Middle East

as well as Harold Bing

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

this lively account documents the history of the more than 40

Never in Finer Company: The Men of the Great War's Lost Battalion Classics But his fiction became acceptedDescription 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