Table of Contents

Introduction The Creation of a Modern Army: The Building and Training of an AEF Division Belleau Wood: Hard Lessons in Position Warfare Soissons: Terrible Success in Open Warfare St. Mihiel: The 2nd Division in the First American Army Blanc Mont: The Set-Piece Attack vs. the Breakthrough Meuse-Argonne: Breakthrough, of a Sort Conclusion--Between Pershing and the Revisionsits: Artillery, the 2nd Division, and the AEF Style of Warfare Appendix A--Artillery Used by the AEF Appendix B--2nd Division Organizational Chart Bibliography

About the Author

MARK E. GROTELUESCHEN is Assistant Professor of History at the United States Air Force Academy./e

Reviews

?An immensely valuable work for the serious student of the A.E.F.?-The New York Military Affairs Symposium Newsletter

?The author has clearly demonstrated that artillery remained the decisive battlefield weapon during the Great War and that no doctrine could achieve success without it. Mr. Grotelueschen deserves our thanks for having brought together documentation from a variety of sources to sustain his thesis, thus giving us a work of great quality which considerably advances our knowledge of the history of the U.S. Army....students of the history of the Great War should read this book.?-The Journal of Military History

"An immensely valuable work for the serious student of the A.E.F."-The New York Military Affairs Symposium Newsletter

"The author has clearly demonstrated that artillery remained the decisive battlefield weapon during the Great War and that no doctrine could achieve success without it. Mr. Grotelueschen deserves our thanks for having brought together documentation from a variety of sources to sustain his thesis, thus giving us a work of great quality which considerably advances our knowledge of the history of the U.S. Army....students of the history of the Great War should read this book."-The Journal of Military History