The Best World War I Story I Know

“Rod Frazer has done a terrific job tying together a three-division campaign in a coherent fashion, but the thoroughness of his work doesn’t stop at this overview level. There are excellent discussions of small unit actions—his discourse on the work of the 151st [Georgia] Machine Battalion in the last action is a classic, for example. More than any comparable military history works I can remember, he also remembers to honor the contributions of the individual Doughboys, and, in one case, a brave French liaison officer, Capitaine Maurice Drouhin. Let me not forget either, GREAT MAPS. I strongly recommend The Best World War I Story I Know to anyone interested in the AEF, the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, or well-researched and written military history.”

—Roads to the Great War





“With a combat veteran’s eye for detail, Rod Frazer narrates how three American divisions struggled to capture the Côte de Châtillon during the forty-seven day Meuse-Argonne battle. The Best World War I Story I Know: On the Point in the Argonne is a compelling story of grit and determination by untested doughboys matched against far more experienced German troops in the final showdown of World War I.”

—Mitchell Yockelson, author of Forty-Seven Days: How Pershing’s Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I and Borrowed Soldiers: American Under British Command, 1918

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"As he did with Send the Alabamians, Rod Frazer gives an excellent account of the Meuse-Argonne campaign, the most important battle fought by the American Army in WWI. He sets the strategic picture then details the battle through the eyes of the doughboy. The horrors of WWI come to the fore. During the 42nd Division’s deployment to Iraq in 2005, we adopted the motto “Never Forget.” We should Never Forget what happened one hundred years ago in the Meuse-Argonne."

—Major General (retired) Joseph Taluto, Chairman, Rainbow Division Veterans Foundation

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"A detailed account of how American military forces finally succeeded in breaking through the famous Hindenburg Line to end WWI. I  am proud of the role the 42nd ID played in key Meuse-Argonne battles, especially their victory at the Côte de Châtillon, which proved to be the Division’s most difficult battle of the war."

—Major General Steven Ferrari, CG, 42nd Infantry Division

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