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Miracle at Belleau Wood
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Miracle at Belleau Wood begins at Les Mare Farm in France with just 200 U.S. marines, who spend their blood to prevail against impossible odds, resisting an overwhelming German force of thousands until, joined by more marines, they turn the battle back against the enemy, save Paris, save France, and save the Allied hope of total victory. Call it, as many Americans did in 1918, the Gettysburg of the Great War, or compare it to the Spartan sacrifice at Thermopylae, it was the birth of the modern marines.
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The battle that transformed a group of common
soldiers into the modern-day Marine Corps
Miracle at Belleau Wood begins in June 1918 at Les Mare Farm in France with just 200 U.S. marines, who spilled their blood to prevail against impossible odds, resisting an overwhelming German force of thousands and turned the battle back against the enemy, saved Paris, saved France, and saved the Allied hope of victory. Called “the Gettysburg of the Great War” by many at the time, it rescued America and its allies from almost certain defeat. This book tells the riveting story of the modern marines as America's fiercest and most effective warriors, the world's preeminent fighting elite. Miracle at Belleau Wood is the story of an epoch-making battle--a battle that elevated the Corps to legendary status and forever burned them into the American imagination.
Praise for Miracle at Belleau Wood
“Axelrod brings us back vividly to the shocking casualties of ‘the war to end all wars.'”
—Bing West, author of No True Glory, former Assistant Secretary of Defense
“Alan Axelrod has perfectly captured the embodiment of U.S. Marines and their unparalleled Esprit de Corps. . . . A must read!”
—Jay Kopelman, author of the best-selling From Baghdad with Love
“Axelrod is one of America's great military historians. He's done it this time with riveting non-stop action that reads like the best of Hemingway's frontline reports plus the Marine Corps novels of W.E.B. Griffin. Axelrod pushes you right into the action, onto the battlefield, and never lets up.”
—Paul B. Farrell, JD, PhD, syndicated columnist for Dow Jones's MarketWatch, former Staff Sergeant in the US Marine Corps
Praise for Patton: A Biography
“Like Patton at his best: polished, precise, and persuasive.”
—Kirkus Reviews
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
The Woods and the War
Chapter 2
Bellhops and Stevedores
Chapter 3
“A Quiet Sector”
Chapter 4
55th Company, 2d Battalion, 5th Brigade
Chapter 5
Huns
Chapter 6
Teufelhunden
Chapter 7
“Retreat, Hell!”
Chapter 8
A Dark Sullen Mystery
Chapter 9
“Follow Me!”
Chapter 10
“Do You Want to Live Forever?”
Chapter 11
Victory—or Death?
Chapter 12
The Outsider's View
Chapter 13
Bois de la Brigade de Marine
Chapter 14
“There Aren't Any More Marines”
Chapter 15
Spartans for a New Thermopylae