is a military historian and archivist who has received the Army Historical Foundation's Distinguished Writing Award. His books include Borrowed Soldiers: Americans under British Command, 1918 and Forty-Seven Days, as well as introductory biographies of Ulysses Grant and Douglas MacArthur.
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The Battle of the Meuse-Argonne stands as the deadliest clash in American history: More than a million untested American soldiers went up against a better-trained and more experienced German army, costing more than twenty-six thousand deaths and leaving ... SEE MORE