Blown to Bits: Battle on the Western Front in World War I by Robert L. Denig

Armistice Day: “At 10 that night without food, we lay down in a pouring rain to sleep. Troops of all kinds passed us in the night – a shadowy stream, over a half-million men.”

The first day of the Battle of Soissons was fought 1918 July 18.

Blown to Bits: letter to his wife about the Battle of Soissons

Robert L. Denig

as published with an introduction in History of the World War