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Table of Contents:
- "All the promotion in the world would make no difference now" : John J. Pershing
- The cult of the attack
- "Right or wrong, my country"
- "Retreat, hell. We just got here"
- "An independent American army"
- "Here is the golden dream" : the Meuse-Argonne
- "The only way to begin is to commence"
- "You boys are my kind. Now let's go in!" September 26
- "We began to realize what artillery really meant." September 27
- "Words can never describe it, nor is the mind imaginative enough to conceive it." September 28
- "There were very few heroes that morning." September 29
- Relief. September 30
- "God damn it, don't you know we're going over the top." October 4
- The lost battalion : "Our mission is to hold this position at all costs."
- "Just plain murder." October 5
- "It is not a dishonorable deed to give up." October 6
- "Their faces told the whole story of their fight." October 7
- "York, I hear you have captured the whole damned German army." October 8
- "We are going to have a very hard day." October 9
- Beyond the Argonne. October 10
- Last gasp. October 11
- "Like the heat from a blast-furnace door." October 12-13
- "The best day's work." October 14
- "There are times when even general officers have to be expendable." October 15
- "Large bodies move slowly, though with great momentum when they start."
- "When I get back, you can wager I will be a home loving man".