Resources

These are some selected books and web materials that shed light on the struggle for Vauquois.

some websites on Vauquois

Les Amis de Vauquois et de sa région, Butte de Vauquois
German Deserter's War Experience, translated by J. Koettegn, New York 1917. See Chapter 21 "In the Hell of Vauquois"
Verdun 1916 (pdf) includes a description of the mine warfare at Vauquois, which "was regarded by the French as the worst posting at Verdun, and Verdun was regarded as the worst on the Western Front. Life at Vauquois was so bad that during late 1917 a short-lived and unofficial truce was declared between the two bitter enemies. The fighting had become unbearable, and in the end, the Germans tried to destroy the entire hill; a task that proved simply too great."
La bataille de Vauquois (wiki)
Lexikon des Ersten Weltkrieges Vauquois
Bericht Vauquois (pdf)
Vauquois, Vestiges 1914 1918
Les opérations début 1915 : Champagne, Meuse, Woëvre
John Hamill, Butte Vauquois (part of John's Military History Tour of Europe)
14-18 : À Vauquois, la guerre des rats
Vauquois the War Underground
Mark Wilson, Battle of the Mines: Vauquois, 1915-1918
Vauquois- Historical Battle Guide
Battle of Vauquois
Chemins de Memoire:
- Historique de la Bataille de Vauquois
- La Butte de Vauquois
Passion & Compassion 1914-1918 : Ressentir la Grande Guerre aujourd'hui
Régiment La Tour d'Auvergne [46ème Régiment d'Infanterie]
46ème Regiment d'infanterie, Journal des marches et operations du 14 Septembre 1914 au 10 janvier 1915 (on Argonne 14-18)

some World war I memoirs

Adolf Buchner, In Stellung nach Vauquois: Kriegstagebuch des Pioniers Hermann Hoppe (1985); also Adolf Buchner, Der Minenkrieg auf Vauquois (1982)
[Amis de Vauquois et de sa région], La butte meurtrie Vauquois: la guerre des mines, 1914-1918 (Vauquois, 2004)
Ernest Beauguitte, Vauquois (Paris, 1921)
René de Feriet, La Butte de Vauquois, 1914-1918 (Paris, 1937)
André Pézard, Nous autres à Vauquois, 1915-1916 (Paris, 1918, reprints 1930, 1974, 1992, 2001, and a German translation, Sturm auf dem hügel Vauquois, Charlottenburg, 1932)
Jean Des Vignes Rouges [Jean Taboureau]. Bourru, soldat de Vauquois (Paris, 1917; here and also at archive.org)
Henri Barbusse, Under Fire: Story of a Squad [Le feu, journal d'une escouade] (New York, 1917)
Ernest Deliège, Un poilu de la Forêt d'Argonne (Paris, 1915)
Maréchal Joffre, Mémoires du maréchal Joffre (Paris, 1932)

some more books on World War I

Jean-Jacques Becker and Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, eds. Encyclopédie de la Grande Guerre 1914-1918 (Bayard, 2004)
John Buchan, A History of the Great War (1923) aka Nelson's History of the War (1915-1919, 24 vols.)
Humphrey Cobb, Paths of Glory (London, 1935)
Jean-Claude Delhez, La bataille des Frontières: Joffre attaque au centre : 22-26 août 1914 (Paris, 2013), Douze mythes de l'année 1914 (Paris, 2013) and Le jour de deuil de l'armée française (Thonne-la-Long, 2011)
Jean-Baptiste Duroselle, Histoire de la Grande Guerre. La France et les Français, 1914-1920 (1972)
Robert Ferrell, America’s Deadliest Battle: Meuse-Argonne, 1918 (Lawrence, KS, 2007) and Collapse at Meuse-Argonne: The Failure of the Missouri-Kansas Division (Columbia, MO, 2004)
Jean Galtier-Boissière, Histoire de la grande guerre (Paris, 1932-33)
Martin Gilbert, The First World War, a Complete History (New York, 1994)
Peter Hart, The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War (Oxford, 2013)
Clair Kenamore, From Vauquois Hill to Exermont; a history of the thirty-fifth division of the United States army (St. Louis, 1919; also at archive.org)
G. J. Meyer, A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 (New York, 2006)
John Mosier, The Myth of the Great War: A New Military History of World War I (New York, 2001)
Jack Sheldon, The German Army on the Western Front, 1915 (Barnsley, UK, 2012)
James Stokesbury, A Short History of World War I (New York, 1981)
Hew Strachan, World War I: A History (Oxford, 1998)
Ian Sumner, They Shall Not Pass: The French Army on the Western Front, 1914-1918 (Barnsley, UK, 2012)
Verdun. Argonne (1914-1918) (Paris, 1936)
A. J. P . Taylor, A History of The First World War (London, 1963)

official accounts of the Great War

American Battle Monuments Commission, American Armies and Battlefields in Europe (Washington, DC, 1938)--This is now digitized and available online.
American Battle Monuments Commission, 35th Division: Summary of Operations in the World War. (Washington, DC, 1944)
United States, Department of the Army, Office of Military History, United States Army in the World War, 1917-1919 (Washington, 1948, 18 vols.; also available as a HathiTrust version)
Etat-major de L'armée, Les Armées Françaises dans la Grande Guerre (Paris, 1922-1937, 106 vols.)
Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence, History of the Great War Based on Official Documents (London, 1923-49, 40 vols.)
Reichsarchiv, Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918 (Berlin,1925-30,15 vols.)
Reichsarchiv, Schlachten des Weltkriegs (Berlin, 1924-30, 36 vols; also available as a Wikisource)
There is a good overview of these official accounts available online. I also recommend this great overview of the materials and sources relating to the Great War.

critical literature

Jean Norton Cru, Témoins: Essai d'analyse et de critique des souvenirs de combattants édités en français de 1915 à 1928 (Paris, 1929)
Susan Dolamore, French Autobiographical Writing 1900-1950: An Annotated Bibliography (London, 1997)
Daniel Sherman, The Construction of Memory in Interwar France (Chicago, 1999)
Leonard Smith, The Embattled Self: French Soldiers’ Testimony of the Great War (Ithaca, 2007)

a few of the many websites on World War I

Etat-major de L'armée, Les Armées Françaises dans la Grande Guerre, published by Imprimerie Nationale, Paris, 1922-1937.

Tome I: La guerre de mouvement (opérations antérieures au 14 novembre 1914). (The war of movement: operations to 14 November 1914).
- Volume 1: Les préliminaires. La bataille des frontières. Opérations antérieures au 24 août 1914. Text First edition published 1922, 485 pages, Second edition published 1936, 602 pages, 1 volume of Annexes, 2 volumes of maps.
- Volume 2: La manoeuvre en retraite (24 août - 5 septembre 1914). Les préliminaires de la bataille de la Marne. Text published 1925, 842 pages, 2 volumes of Annexes, 2 volumes of maps.
- Volume 3: La bataille de la Marne (6 - 14 septembre 1914). Text published 1931, 1415 pages, 4 volumes of Annexes, 2 volumes of maps.
- Volume 4: La bataille de l'Aisne. La course à la mer (14 septembre - 13 novembre 1914). Text published 1933, 569 pages, 4 volumes of Annexes, 2 volumes of maps.
Tome II: La stabilisation du front. Les attaques locales (14 novembre 1914-1 mai 1915). Text published 1930, 734 pages, 2 volumes of Annexes, 1 volume of maps. (I think that I can find and download from Gallica)
Tome III: Les offensives de 1915. L'hiver 1915-1916. Text published 1923, 720 pages, 4 volumes of Annexes, 1 volume of maps.
Tome IV: Verdun et la Somme.
- Volume I: Projets de la coalition pour 1916, Offensive allemande contre Verdun (21 février-1 mai 1916). Text published 1926, 666 pages, 3 volumes of Annexes, 1 volume of maps.
- Volume 2: Verdun (1 mai - 3 septembre 1916). Préparation de la bataille de la Somme. Bataille de la Somme (1 juillet - 3 septembre 1916). Text published 1933, 445 pages, 3 volumes of Annexes, 1 volume of maps.
- Volume 3: Fin de la bataille de la Somme et première bataille offensive de Verdun (3 septembre - 31 décembre 1916). Text published 1936, 534 pages, 4 volumes of Annexes, 1 volume of maps.

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