Thursday, March 24, 2016

" Forty-Seven Days," a Pritzker World War I Author Program on March 29, 2016

       Historian Mitchell Yockelson discusses his gripping account of the First Army’s hard-fought victory in World War I.

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                                                               Tuesday, Mar. 29 | 6 p.m.
                                     Sponsored by the U.S. World War One Centennial Commission
 
"The Battle of the Meuse-Argonne stands as the deadliest clash in American history."
 
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