Rock of the Marne
  • Published: 6 October 2015
  • ISBN: 9780698164949
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368
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Rock of the Marne

The American Soldiers Who Turned the Tide Against the Kaiser in World War I

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6 Oct 2015
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1 Dec 2015
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The stirring account of the Third U.S. Infantry Division in the Second Battle of the Marne—where the tide of World War I was finally turned…

The soldiers of the Third U.S. Infantry Division in World War I were outnumbered and inexperienced young men facing hardened veterans, but their actions proved to be a turning point during the last German offensive of World War I.

In stopping three German divisions from crossing the Marne River, these heroic American soldiers blocked the road to Paris east of Château-Thierry, helped save the French capital and, in doing so, played a key role in turning the tide of the war. The Allies then began a counteroffensive that drove the enemy back to the Hindenburg Line, and four months later the war was over.

Rock of the Marne follows the Third Division’s Sixth Brigade, which took the brunt of the German attack. The officers, many of them West Pointers and elite Ivy Leaguers, fighting side-by-side with enlisted men—city dwellers and country boys, cowboys and coal miners who came from every corner of America along with newly planted immigrants from Europe—answered their country’s call to duty.

This is the gripping true account of one of the most important—yet least explored—battles of World War I.

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  • Published: 6 October 2015
  • ISBN: 9780698164949
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368
Categories:

Praise for Rock of the Marne

Praise for Duty, Honor, Privilege:
"By tracking the Silk Stockings from enlistment through training, battle and triumphant return to New York, Harris makes an inarguable case that these sons of privilege did not flinch in duty or honor. Clear, well-detailed writing." David Hinckley, New York Daily News

"Stephen Harris has written both a soldier's story and a long overdue but bloody redemption of America's most unfairly maligned infantry regiment. Well researched, well written, and entertaining." Rod Paschall, author of The Defeat of Imperial Germany, 1917-1918

Praise for Harlem's Hell Fighters:
"The story of James Reese Europe and the Hell Fighters is one of the best I know, and here it is told superbly. It is the story of bravery and courage, creativity and controversy, tragedy and transcendence. It reminds us, in nearly every line, of the extraordinary contributions African Americans have made--not just to American life, but to the very essence of what it means to be an American." --Ken Burns, award-winning documentary filmmaker

Praise for Duffy's War:
"If you never buy another book on Irish-American military history, get this one. It is magnificently written." Jack McCormack, Irish Edition