Miracle at Belleau Wood: The Birth of the Modern U.S. Marine Corps
Miracle at Belleau Wood: The Birth of the Modern U.S. Marine Corps by Alan Axelrod
2007 | ISBN: 1599210258, 076276130X | English | 272 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
2007 | ISBN: 1599210258, 076276130X | English | 272 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
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.