James McWilliams

Eating Promiscuously

James McWilliams

> McWilliams’s work has appeared in The Paris Review (online), The New Yorker (online), the New York Times, Harper’s, Washington Post, Texas Monthly, The Atlantic, Salon, Slate, The American Scholar, the New York Times Book Review, The Millions, and more> He has been featured on several NPR programs throughout the years (Lopate, Science Friday, The Takeaway)> He currently writes “The Things We Eat” column at Pacific Standard, where he is a contributing writer> McWilliams is the recipient of the Hiett Prize, given by the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture (2009)

Amiens

James McWilliams

It was the decisive battle of World War I. German commander Erich Ludendorff called it «the black day of the German army.» Many authors have stated that it was the beginning of the end of the great conflict. And yet, until now, no book has been published on the climactic battle at Amiens. Amiens was one of the first «modern» battles, and certainly the first attempted by the Allies. Employing the troops of five nations (including Canada) and utilizing secrecy, deception, and combined operations, the Allies won the first of a string of victories culminating in the Armistice one hundred days later. Amiens: Dawn of Victory is the first book to study the historic battle in minute detail. Using eyewitness accounts from dozens of survivors, plus many accounts, both published and unpublished, by the participants, the authors take us into the trenches, the tanks, and the cockpits.