The soldiers of the Third U.S. Infantry Division in World War I were outnumbered and inexperienced young men facing hardened veterans, but their actions proved to be a turning point of World War I. In stopping three German divisions from crossing the Marne River, these Americans blocked the road to Paris and helped save the French capital. The Allies then began a counteroffensive that drove the enemy back to the Hindenburg Line. Four months later the war was over. Rock of the Marne tells this compelling, oft-forgotten story, and the men who made it possible.
