I watched this 2001 tv movie yesterday. I'd seen it before but I like movies about the Great War and so wanted to see this one again. Set and filmed in the picturesque Argonne forest this story of a surrounded battalion of inexperienced but tough New Yorkers fighting it out has a distinct advantage over stories set in the trenches - it wasn't quite so grim. So it didn't have all the usual trench cliches in fact it looked more like some of the recent American Civil war movies for all its forest fighting. Well worth seeing and a useful addition to the genre. Director Mulcahy cut his teeth on pop videos!Link to historical site with all manner of background information.
A reasonable book on the Doughboys is 'Retreat Hell We Just got Here'
Wargames
This year saw American WW1 1/72 figures released by two manufacturers - check them out here and here. Free wargames rules for the period here. (I know we're supposed to spend a fortune on printed rules but I can't see the point since the invention of the internet. )
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