CHAPTER XX

SIEGE WARFARE

Second period of the war—Germany besieged—The pressure on 263 the west—Partial offensives—The lack of shells—Its effect on the war—“Craters of Death”—Monotony of the trenches—A National Army—Soldier-priests—Their contempt of death—Their self-sacrifice—Their spiritual work—Influence on the troops—The realities of life—Church and State—The example of the State—Spirit of unity—Points of attack—Hammer and tongs—The St. Mihiel salient—Chauvoncourt—Les Eparges—Bois d’Ailly—Bois Brulé—Bois le Prêtre—The Vosges and Alsace—The soldiers of France—France and England—The Boche standards of right and wrong—The German cancer and the end of the war

CHAPTER THE LAST

GERMANY AND THE ALLIES

Pride and prejudice—English pride before the war—Pride of 282 France—Pride of race—_Noblesse Oblige_—Pride of Germany—Pride of the _parvenu_—Peaceful pre-war invasion of German commerce and kultur—Neutral views of Germany’s guilt—French views of England—Redemption by hate—What is “the right”?—Greater Germany?—Tannenberg’s views—The Kaiser’s conversion—Germany’s designs on neutral countries—The new year—The dead

EPILOGUE 301

By M. LÉON MIRMAN

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING PAGE

General de Castelnau _Frontispiece_

Les Halles, Raon l’Etape 22

French Advance in Village Street of Magnières 36

M. Léon Mirman 44

M. Simon 50

French Advance at Sainte-Barbe 92

General Dubail 104

Gerbéviller 116

Farm of Léomont 134

General Foch 156

Infantry Attack on Farm of Saint Epvre, on the Heights 190 above Lunéville

Outside the Préfecture, Nancy 202

Nomeny 214

Réméréville 222

Château de Haraucourt 222

French Attack from Cemetery of Rehainviller near 258 Lunéville

Church at Drouville 286

LIST OF MAPS

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Eastern Frontier 59

Alsace and the Vosges 71

Lorraine Frontier _Facing page_ 126

La Woevre ” ” 272

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