Robert H. Ferrell, "Five Days In October: The Lost Battalion Of World War I".
Publisher: University of Missouri Press | ISBN:0826215947 | 2005 edition | PDF | 130 Pages | 1.58 MB
During American participation in World War I, many events caught the public's attention, but none so much as the plight of the Lost Battalion. Comprising some six hundred men of the Seventy-seventh Division, the so-called battalion was entrapped on the side of a ravine in the Argonne Forest by German forces from October 2 to 7, 1918. The men's courage under siege in the midst of artillery fire (coming both day and night), with nothing to eat after the morning of the first day save grass and roots…