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If Persico cannot research Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly ( " Come on you sonsabitches...do you want to live forever?!" at the Bois de Belleau wheat field correctly ( "Sgt Daly held two Navy crosses.." ) what else was totally incorrect in this book? Daly held TWO MOHS the day he stood up in that wheat field and led the charge into Belleau Woods, earning his one Navy Cross that day. he also protrays the MARINES as being almost defeated there and THAT is a lie. One MARINE Regiment DESTROYED 4 German Diviisons there. The French renamed Belleau Wood Bois de Brigada la MARINES ( Woods of the MARINES ) after that battle. Persico decides the outcome and then carefully writes onlt thos things that make him right, leaving out anything that cloudes his issue.
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November 11, 1918. The final hours pulsate with tension as every man in the trenches hopes to escape the melancholy distinction of being the last to die in World War I. The Allied generals knew the fighting would end precisely at 11:00 a.m., yet in the final hours they flung men against an already beaten Germany. The result? Eleven thousand casualties suffered -- more than during the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Why? Allied commanders wanted to punish the enemy to the very last moment, and career officers saw a fast-fading chance for glory and promotion. Joseph E. Persico puts the reader in the trenches with the forgotten and the famous -- among the latter, Corporal Adolf Hitler, Captain Harry Truman, and Colonels Douglas MacArthur and George Patton. Mainly, though, he follows ordinary soldiers' lives, illuminating their fate as the end approaches. - Jacket flap.
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