# Watching on the Rhine

Author: Markham, Violet R. (Violet Rosa), 1872-1959

Genre: Category: Travel Writing

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69662

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Watching+on+the+Rhine+Markham&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Four A.M.: the slowly moving engine comes to a standstill with a jolt which wakes me from the uneasy half-sleep of a train journey. I lift a corner of the blind and look out. It is the grey hour before the dawn, when night still wrestles with morning for the possession of the coming day. A ruined building lit up by a station flare stares at me stark and desolate. In the quarter light a long street of battered houses is also dimly visible. Lille! We have come through the worst of the devastated area in the night, but the hall-mark of the invader lies stamped on the big industrial town, the very name of which is associated henceforth with suspense, with anguish, with triumph. The military t...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watching-on-the-rhine-69662/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watching-on-the-rhine-69662/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watching-on-the-rhine-69662/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watching-on-the-rhine-69662/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watching-on-the-rhine-69662/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watching-on-the-rhine-69662/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watching-on-the-rhine-69662/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watching-on-the-rhine-69662/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watching-on-the-rhine-69662/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watching-on-the-rhine-69662/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watching-on-the-rhine-69662/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watching-on-the-rhine-69662/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watching-on-the-rhine-69662/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watching-on-the-rhine-69662/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watching-on-the-rhine-69662/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watching-on-the-rhine-69662/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watching-on-the-rhine-69662/chapters/1/index.md)