With Their Bare Hands traces the fate of the US 79th Division-men drafted off the streets of Baltimore?? Washington?? and Philadelphia-from their training camp in Maryland through the final years of World War I?? focusing on their most famous engagement: the attack on Montfaucon?? the most heavily fortified part of the German Line?? during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in 1918.
Using the 79th as a window onto the America