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The soldiers of the Third US Infantry Section in World War I were outnumbered and inexperienced teenagers facing solidified veterans, but their activities proved to be a turning point during the last German offensive of World War I. In preventing 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 started a counteroffensive that drove the opponent back to the Hindenburg Brand, and four calendar months later the war was over. Rock and roll of the Marne employs the Third Division's Sixth Brigade, which had taken the brunt of the German harm. The officers, most of them West Suggestions and top notch Ivy Leaguers fighting with each other side by side with enlisted men - city dwellers and country kids, cowboys and coal miners who originated from every spot of America along with newly planted immigrants from Europe - clarified their country's call to work. This is the gripping true bank account of one of the most crucial - yet least explored - fights of World War I.