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Such occurrences are common. The widows of Foch and Joffre are now inacrid, verbal combat because their husbands belittled each other in their books. Pershing's recent memoirs make out a very good case for General Pershing at the expense of the French and American War Departments. Petain is one of the few who was fair and unbiased as far as can be told...
...amalgamation question" reached a crisis when the great German offensive of March-to-June 1918 pushed the Allies back to the brink of defeat. General Pershing rushed to Marshal Foch, impulsively offered troops to help stem the tide. The emergency created by the German attack dissolved disagreements, put U. S. divisions helter-skelter into the line for quick action...
...First U. S. Army which General Pershing commanded (Aug. 10). Immediate preparations were started for its active use. East of Verdun on the southern sector was a deep inactive salient known as St. Mihiel which the Germans had held since 1914. General Pershing got permission from Generalissimo Foch to use his new army against this bulge. Early on the misty morning of Sept. 12 began the St. Mihiel battle, with the ist Army fighting under U. S. command for the first time. Though the salient was virtually a field fortress, U. S. troops, with an 8-to-i preponderance...
...final A. E. F. engagement?biggest in U.S. military history?occurred between the Argonne Forest and the Meuse River just west of Verdun. Foch's purpose was to drive the Germans back on the Ardennes Forest, coop them up, cut their rail communications to the western front. General Pershing had only two weeks to transfer his ist Army from St. Mihiel to this new sector and organize his attack. Many of his divisions were inexperienced in battle. Ahead of him lay rough, heavily fortified country...
...plunged into journalism. The War put a stop to his propaganda paper, Fatherland (later resumed as American Monthly), brought Viereck persecution but no bodily harm. In the post-War millennium he thrives again. Other books: The House of the Vampire, Confessions of a Barbarian, As They Saw Us (Foch, Ludendorff and other leaders...