Sergeant Alvin Cullum York, a poor young farmer from Tennessee, was said to have single-handedly killed two dozen Germans and captured another 132 of the enemy, plus thirty-five machine guns before noon on one fateful day during World War I. York became an American legend, celebrated in magazines, books, and a movie starring Gary Cooper. Here, for the first time is the complete story of York, the sixteen others who fought beside him, and the events that occurred in the Argonne Forest that day.