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Duty, Honor, Privilege: New York City's Silk Stocking Regiment and the Breaking of the Hindenburg Line
Duty Honor Privilege New York City's Silk Stocking Regiment and the Breaking of the Hindenburg Line
Author: Stephen Harris
On September 29, 1918, a regiment of volunteers from New York State, many of them rich boys from Manhattan, attacked the famed Hindenburg Line, one of the strongest defenseive systems ever devised. In the tradition of the Union Army's heroic assaults on Confederate entrenchments during the closing battles of the Civil War, the doughboys hurled ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781574884678
ISBN-10: 1574884670
Pages: 384
Edition: illustrated edition
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Publisher: Brassey's Inc
Book Type: Paperback
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