The Americans give it a go in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, and they found out that actually this whole war thing is pretty hard.

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Ring of Steel by Alexander Watson

Over There: The United States in the Great War, 1917-1918 by Byron Farwell

Tanks in the Hundred Days 1918 - A Diminishing Resource by Roger Blaber

The Day We Won the War: Turning Point at Amiens 8th August 1918 by Charles Messenger

Forty-Seven Days: How Pershing's Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I by Mitchell Yockelson

The Real Controller of the Battle: The Importance of Studying Tactical Battalion Command -- A Case Study by William Westerman

With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 by David Stevenson

A World Remade by G.J. Meyer

To Conquer Hell: The Meuse-Argonne, 1918 The Epic Battle That Ended the First World War by Edward G. Lengel

A World Undone by G.J. Meyer

Hundred Days: The Campaign that Ended World War 1 by Nick Lloyd

The First World War by John Keegan

Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War by Robert A. Doughty

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