Introduction

1 War

2 Over the Pond

3 “Hey Froggie”

4 Murder in the Mud

5 First to Fight

6 Ebb and Flow

7 The Turn of the Tide

8 Wounded

9 Experience of War

10 The Doughboys

11 The St.Mihiel Picnic

12 Into the Argonne

13 Death in the Forest

14 To the Bitter End

15 Peace and Home

Epilogue

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Book

Members of the 32nd Division snack on French onions on their way to the front

A doughboy herds German prisoners to the rear

Doughboys from the 1st Division wear gas masks as they man frontline trenches in January 1918

Doughboys from the 28th Infantry, 1st Division, charge toward Cantigny in one of the earliest U.S. actions of the war

A phosphorous shell rains fire during action along the Vesle River in August 1918

A doughboy examines the field of fire of a captured German heavy machine gun near Grandpre

Doughboys of the 33rd Division keep a watchful eye on the German lines near Forges in October 1918

A German prisoner helps two wounded doughboys to an aid station

A burial detail inters the dead of the 79th Division on the edge of Bois de Consenvoye in November 1918

Dead of the 79th Division are gathered for burial during the battle for the Meuse-Argonne