In May and June 1918 the newly arrived American Expeditionary Force fought two actions that helped defeat the last German offensive of World War I. At Château Thierry a combined French and American force stopped the Germans from crossing ...

This is the latest in a series of Battleground books by Maarten Otte on the American Expeditionary Forces, with several more in preparation.

In this volume the author presents the verbatim text of two major source documents for that work; his fathers ORAL HISTORY and his mothers TRAVEL JOURNAL, with his own added commentary.

Several years after the Armistice, he used these sketches to write the stories of events that haunted him, that gave him nightmares, that kept him awake at night.

Employing first-hand accounts and specially commissioned artwork, this book investigates three different actions that shaped the course of the bitter battle for Belleau Wood, revealing the interplay of doctrine, tactics, technology, ...

This volume presents a collection of 36 extracts, articles, letters, orders, interviews, and biographies.

Rich with the personal insights and observations that bring history to life, the book is illustrated with a great number of photographs, many of which are rare and never before published.

This is the story of the epoch-making battle, the battle that made the modern Marine Corps, the battle that would form the heritage behind so many marine victories in later wars, at Tarawa and Iwo Jima, Pork Chop Hill, Khe Sanh, and at ...