World War I
A bewildering three weeks spent in a perpetually changing scene--changing, and yet, outside Paris, in its essential elements terribly the same--that is how my third journey to France, since the war began, appears to me as I look back upon it. My dear daughter-secretary and I h...
I have quoted in the preceding chapter the warning words of Sir Douglas Haig on the subject of "mechanical appliances." The gist of them is that mechanical appliances can never...
3. Chapter 3We left Valenciennes on the morning of January 12th. By great luck, an officer from the First Army, who knew every inch of the ground to be traversed, was with us, in addition t...
5. Chapter 5Before we left Strasbourg on our way to the "front de Champagne," armed with General Gouraud's maps and directions, an hour or two of most interesting conversation threw great l...
2. Chapter 2Among the impressions and experiences of my month in France there are naturally some that stand out in particularly high relief. I have just described one of them. But I look ba...
8. Chapter 8In these April days Sir Douglas Haig's latest Despatch, dated the 21st March, 1919--the first anniversary of those black days of last year!--has just been published in all the l...
1. Chapter 1A bewildering three weeks spent in a perpetually changing scene--changing, and yet, outside Paris, in its essential elements terribly the same--that is how my third journey to F...
6. Chapter 6On March 2nd, 1917, I found myself lunching at Montreuil, then the General Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force, with the Staff of the Intelligence Department. After...
4. Chapter 4The Maine--Verdun--Champagne--it is in connection with these three names that the French war consciousness shows itself most sensitive and most profound, just as the war conscio...
7. Chapter 7It was late when we left Verdun, on the afternoon of the day which saw us at its beginning on the southern edge of the St. Mihiel battle-field, and the winter daylight had passe...