Never in Finer Company: The Men of the Great War's Lost Battalion Classics From the bestselling and award-winning

From the bestselling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction

from Germany’s Chief of General Staff Helmuth von Moltke to his rival

this lively account documents the history of the more than 40

examines this crucial year in context and illuminates the century that followed

the Imperial War Museum is bringing this book out in a new edition

Never in Finer Company: The Men of the Great War's Lost Battalion Classics From the bestselling and award-winningDescription by Edward G. Lengel Paperback In the first week of October, 1918, six hundred men attacked into Europe's forbidding Argonne Forest. Against all odds, they surged through enemy lines alone. They were soon surrounded and besieged. As they ran out of ammunition, water, and food, the doughboys withstood constant bombardment and relentless enemy assaults. Seven days later, only 194 soldiers from the original unit walked out of the forest. The