# Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort

Author: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937

Genre: World War I

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4550

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Fighting+France%2C+from+Dunkerque+to+Belfort+Wharton&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

On the 30th of July, 1914, motoring north from Poitiers, we had lunched somewhere by the roadside under apple-trees on the edge of a field. Other fields stretched away on our right and left to a border of woodland and a village steeple. All around was noonday quiet, and the sober disciplined landscape which the traveller's memory is apt to evoke as distinctively French. Sometimes, even to accustomed eyes, these ruled-off fields and compact grey villages seem merely flat and tame; at other moments the sensitive imagination sees in every thrifty sod and even furrow the ceaseless vigilant attachment of generations faithful to the soil. The particular bit of landscape before us spoke in all i...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fighting-france-from-dunkerque-to-belfort-4550/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fighting-france-from-dunkerque-to-belfort-4550/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fighting-france-from-dunkerque-to-belfort-4550/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fighting-france-from-dunkerque-to-belfort-4550/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fighting-france-from-dunkerque-to-belfort-4550/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fighting-france-from-dunkerque-to-belfort-4550/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fighting-france-from-dunkerque-to-belfort-4550/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fighting-france-from-dunkerque-to-belfort-4550/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fighting-france-from-dunkerque-to-belfort-4550/chapters/9/index.md)