Our Greatest Battle (The Meuse-Argonne)

by Frederick Palmer

Frederick Palmer.

September, 1919.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	A Change of Plan	[1]
II	Into Line for Attack	[19]
III	New and Old Divisions	[42]
IV	The Order of Battle	[51]
V	On the Meuse Side	[65]
VI	We Break Through	[75]
VII	In the Wake of the Infantry	[95]
VIII	The First Day	[109]
IX	The Attack Slows Down	[129]
X	By the Right Flank	[147]
XI	By the Left	[168]
XII	By the Center	[194]
XIII	Over the Hindenburg Line	[223]
XIV	Disengaging Rheims	[249]
XV	Veterans Drive a Wedge	[266]
XVI	Mastering the Aire Trough	[280]
XVII	Veterans Continue Driving	[294]
XVIII	The Grandpré Gap Is Ours	[309]
XIX	Another Wedge	[324]
XX	In the Meuse Trough	[340]
XXI	Some Changes in Command	[355]
XXII	A Call for Harbord	[376]
XXIII	The S. O. S. Drives a Wedge	[391]
XXIV	Regulars and Reserves	[413]
XXV	Leavenworth Commands	[433]
XXVI	Others Obey	[449]
XXVII	American Manhood	[472]
XXVIII	The Mill of Battle	[485]
XXIX	They Also Served	[501]
XXX	Through the Kriemhilde	[515]
XXXI	A Citadel and a Bowl	[540]
XXXII	The Final Attack	[571]
XXXIII	Victory	[589]

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TABLE OF MAPS

		FACING PAGE
1.—	American Offensives and other Offensives
	in which American troops participated,
	May-November, 1918	[2]
2.—	Where American Divisions were in line,
	from our entry into the trenches until
	the Armistice	[14]
3.—	Offensives of September, 1918. Relation
	of Meuse-Argonne Battle to the
	decisive Allied offensive movement	[20]
4.—	Divisions in the First Stage of the
	Meuse-Argonne Battle, September
	26th-October 1st	[52]
5.—	Divisions in the Second Stage of the
	Meuse-Argonne Battle, October 1st-31st	[194]
6.—	Lines reached by German and Allied
	Offensives, 1918	[224]
7.—	In the Trough of the Aire	[266]
8.—	The approach of the Center to the
	Whale-back	[274]
9.—	Divisions east of the Meuse	[348]
10.—	The Services of Supply: Showing Ports
	and Railroad Communications	[378]
11.—	Divisions in the Third Stage of the
	Meuse-Argonne Battle, October 31st-November
	11th	[590]