A Hideous Price: The 4th Brigade at Blanc Mont, 2-10 October 1918

As the summer of 1918 entered its final days, the Great War accelerated toward a violent climax in the fall. Even while the Marines of the 4th Brigade fought at Saint-Mihiel, Allied commanders were completing plans that would launch the Marines once more into a major attack. The 2d Division’s hard-won reputation would guarantee it another hard-fought battle. Before the 4th Brigade left the battlefield of Blanc Mont, its Marines would achieve their most spectacular success of the war but endure their most severe day of losses.

World War l historians, military and college educators with studies relavant to this historic battle and anyone with an interet in American military history would welcome this resource as insigthts into this moment in military history.