Armistice Day: “At 10 that night without food, we lay down in a pouring rain to sleep. Troops of all kinds passed us in the night – a shadowy stream, over a half-million men.” The first day of the Battle of Soissons was fought 1918 July 18. Blown to Bits: letter to his wife about the Battle of Soissons Robert L. Denig as published with an introduction in History of the World War