Excerpt from Otter Tail County, Minnesota, in the World War: An Illustrated Historical Record of the People From Otter Tail County, Minnesota, Who Participated in the World War, Both at Home and Abroad, in the Years 1917, 1918, and 1919 Page 8stepped in at Chateau Thierry and stopped the tide of the onrushing Germans in the spring of 1918, when the Allies were losing all hope. This fighting spirit and the confidence of victory on the part of the Americans put new life into the Allies and the sweeping successes that followed are proof that the American Army was the dominant force that crushed autocratic Germany in time to save civilization and mankind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.