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With Their Bare Hands traces the fate of the US 79th Department - men drafted off of the pavements of Baltimore, Washington, and Philadelphia - off their training camp in Maryland through the ultimate years of World Warfare I, concentrating on their most famous engagement: the assault on Montfaucon, the most intensely fortified part of the German Line, during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in 1918. Using the 79th as a windows onto the North american Army all together, Gene Fax examines its blunders and triumphs, the methods of the AEF commander-in-chief Basic John J. Pershing, and the way the lessons it discovered during the Great Warfare helped it to deal with World Warfare II. Fax makes some startling judgments, on the role of future Military Chief-of-Staff, Colonel George C. Marshall; if the Montfaucon fight - experienced it followed the plan - might well have shortened the conflict; of course, if Pershing was justified in buying his soldiers to harm right up to the moment of the Armistice. Pulling upon original documents, including requests, field communications, and the letters and memoirs of the troops themselves, a few of which have never been used before, Fax instructs the engrossing storyline of the 79th Division's bloody involvement in the ultimate weeks of World Warfare I.
