Never in Finer Company: The Men of the Great War's Lost Battalion Classics the British fought an extraordinary

the British fought an extraordinary holding action against oncoming Germans

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

But his fiction became accepted as fact

as well as Harold Bing

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

Never in Finer Company: The Men of the Great War's Lost Battalion Classics the British fought an extraordinaryDescription 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