Forty-Seven Days: How Pershing's Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I

On September 26, 1918, the American Expeditionary Forces began the Battle of the Argonne Forest lacking a strategy, experience, or an understanding of what lay ahead. Forty-seven days later, at battle's end, the back of the German army had been broken and General John J. Pershing had secured his place as one of the great generals in American history. The story of this pivotal battle has never been better told than it is here. Mitchell Yockelson expands our understanding not only of how World War I ended, but also of how militaries can change and adapt under conditions of great adversity

Max Boot, New York Times Bestselling author of The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power and Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present Day

Get ready to dig into one of the wildest and deadliest battles in history. The beautifully researched Forty-Seven Days takes you right there and shows you all the minute details, from the pings of a bullet to Pershing's confidence and fears

Brad Meltzer, New York Times Bestselling author of The President's Shadow

The Meuse-Argonne campaign in 1918 was the most significant battle fought by American Doughboys in World War I. In Forty-Seven Days, Mitchell Yockelson has written a superbly researched account of their coming of age under the leadership of General John J. 'Black Jack' Pershing. This book will take its place as one of the best books written about the largest and one of the deadliest campaigns in American military history

Carlo D'Este, author of Patton: A Genius for War

Mitchell Yockelson has become a preeminent World War I historian. With an absorbing narrative, fast pacing, and gritty detail, his Forty-Seven Days brings to life that war's final and bloody Meuse-Argonne offensive, when General John 'Black Jack' Pershing and more than one million American and French soldiers broke the back of the mighty German army

Douglas Waller, New York Times Bestselling author of Disciples and Wild Bill Donovan