With Joffre at Verdun: A Story of the Western Front
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Book finally, after many months of anguish, of short commons, of brutal treatment, they found themselves interned in Ruhleben race-course, to which so many unfortunate civilians were sent, there to mope and fret and rot while the war was in progress."And here we'll stay, I suppose," grumbled Henri, when some weeks had passed, and they had, as it were, settled down to the routine of camp life in Ruhleben, and had become inured--as far as young men of active dispositions and healthy appetites can become inured, to the scantily short rations with which the Germans supplied them. "It's awfully har...
Chapters (55)
- [Frontispiece: "THE SERGEANT OF HENRI'S PLATOON, ONE ARM DANGLING HELPLESS BY HIS SIDE, STRETCHED OUT A BRAWNY HAND AND GRIPPED OUR HERO'S" (missing from book)]
- With Joffre at Verdun
- A Story of the Western Front
- LT.-COL. F. S. BRERETON
- Illustrated by Arch. Webb
- BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY 1916
- Illustrations
- "THE SERGEANT OF HENRI'S PLATOON, ONE ARM DANGLING HELPLESS BY HIS SIDE, STRETCHED OUT A BRAWNY HAND AND GRIPPED OUR HERO'S" (missing from book) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece "A BIG BURLY MAN, A NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICER OF THE STAFF AT RUHLEBEN, BARRED HENRI'S PROGRESS" (missing from book) "A TERRIFIC CONCUSSION SENT HIS BOWL FLYING AND THE YOUNG SOLDIER HIMSELF ROLLING FROM THE BANK" "THEY SAW A GERMAN SOLDIER ACTUALLY DRINKING FROM THE STREAM WITHIN A FEW YARDS OF THEM "THAT BEARDED VETERAN, LEANING OVER THE SWAYING WALL, MADE HAVOC AMONG THE GERMANS WITH HIS BAYONET" "THE GRENADE LANDED WITHIN A FOOT OF THE FIRE ABOUT WHICH THE MEN HAD BEEN SEATED"
- MAP OF VERDUN SALIENT DURING OPERATIONS ON 21ST FEBRUARY, 1916 MAP OF VERDUN SALIENT AFTER FOUR MONTHS OF CONTINUOUS FIGHTING
- WITH JOFFRE AT VERDUN
- CHAPTER I
- The Camp at Ruhleben
- CHAPTER II
- Henri and Jules and Stuart
- CHAPTER III
- The Road to Freedom
- CHAPTER IV
- The Heart of Germany
- CHAPTER V
- Eluding the Pursuers
- [Illustration: "A BIG BURLY MAN, A NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICER OF THE STAFF AT RUHLEBEN, BARRED HENRI'S PROGRESS" (missing from book)]
- CHAPTER VI
- Changing their Direction
- CHAPTER VII
- A Friend in Need
- CHAPTER VIII
- The Verdun Salient
- CHAPTER IX
- A Terrific Bombardment
- "A TERRIFIC CONCUSSION SENT HIS BOWL FLYING AND THE YOUNG SOLDIER HIMSELF ROLLING FROM THE BANK"
- MAP OF VERDUN SALIENT DURING OPERATIONS ON 21ST FEBRUARY, 1916
- CHAPTER X
- The Thin Line of Heroes
- CHAPTER XI
- Falling Back
- CHAPTER XII
- A Reconnoitring-party
- "THEY SAW A GERMAN SOLDIER ACTUALLY DRINKING FROM THE STREAM WITHIN A FEW YARDS OF THEM"
- CHAPTER XIII
- Douaumont Fortress
- MAP OF VERDUN SALIENT AFTER FOUR MONTHS OF CONTINUOUS FIGHTING
- CHAPTER XIV
- Frenchmen and Brandenburgers
- CHAPTER XV
- Rats in a Trap
- THAT BEARDED VETERAN, LEANING OVER THE SWAYING WALL, MADE HAVOC AMONG THE GERMANS WITH HIS BAYONET"
- CHAPTER XVI
- A Fight to a Finish
- "THE GRENADE LANDED WITHIN A FOOT OF THE FIRE ABOUT WHICH THE MEN HAD BEEN SEATED"
- CHAPTER XVII
- Charge of the Gallant Bretons
- CHAPTER XVIII
- A Sinister German
- CHAPTER XIX
- Heroic "Poilus"
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