Category: History - European
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We were not yet really on the "White Road" to Verdun, and there was still much to be seen that delighted the eyes. In one yellow cornfield there appeared to be enormous poppies....
3. Chapter 3It would be useless to pretend that one entered Verdun without emotion,--Verdun, sorely stricken, yet living, kept alive by the indomitable soul of the soldiers of France, whils...
4. Chapter 4At one of the hospitals beside the bed of a dying man sat a little old man writing letters. They told me that before the war he had owned the most flourishing wine shop in the v...
1. Chapter 1Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 11679-h.htm or 11679-h.zip: (http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/1/6/...