FRANK H. SIMONDS
Reading edition
AUTHOR OF "THE GREAT WAR"
Garden City New York DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1916
Copyright, 1916, by Doubleday, Page & Company All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian COPYRIGHT, 1916, THE TRIBUNE ASS'N.
Grateful acknowledgment is hereby made to the New York Tribune for permission to reprint these articles in book form.
CONTENTS
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I. My Trip to Verdun—General Pétain Face to Face 3
The men who hold the line—what their faces told of the past and the future of France.
II. My Trip to Verdun—A Dying, Shell-Ridden City 43
The Vauban Citadel, in the shelter of which falling shells cannot find you—houses and blocks that are vanishing hourly—"but William will not come"—war that is invisible—a luncheon underground with a toast to America—the last courtesy from a general and a host—nothing that was not beautiful.
III. Battle of Verdun Another Gettysburg 72
Failure of Crown Prince likened by French to "high tide" of confederacy.
IV. Verdun, the Door That Leads Nowhere 95
The battle and the topography of the battlefield—an analysis of the attack and defence.
V. In Sight of the Promised Land—on the Lorraine Battlefield 116