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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1918. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... chapter vi Chambery And Our Soldiers On Leave Hotel de France, Chambery, Jan. 5, 1918. I Ah sitting in my room in the hotel with my feet on the radiator, and the window wide open. Outside is the most romantic line of chimney pots against the "mountains of eternal snow," which at this moment are of a luminous rose color, and swathed in a veil of pale mists, making them seem infinitely high. Coming up in the train the other day we met a chasseur, who was stationed in Belgium, and asked him if he thought there would be an advance there. He simply said, "No, because it takes sixteen hours to advance 400 meters, on account of the mud." Then he said that the men carrying their packs on their backs have to be tied together by ropes in order not to drown in it, and every time they take a step they have to pull each foot out with both hands. Also they get their food by passing it along, on the principle of an old-fashioned fire bucket line and the end ones get it cold on account of the distance, or if there isn't enough, don't get it at all. The mud is icy cold and they have orders to cut their overcoats off above the mud, which comes half way up the thigh. At the end of eight days you can imagine how warm they are and their overcoats can't be lengthened again. An officer here told us the other night that it was even worse at Verdun, because they were being shot at and shelled in addition. He had seen his men drown in the mud ten feet in front of him, "as far off as that table," he said, and he and the nearest man to him were powerless to save them, though they sank slowly. He said there wasn't a single man in his regiment who was there at the beginning. They were all killed or wounded or just couldn't go on. After one attack and before another, sometimes a man, who had ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217788724
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 32
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217788726
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 77 gr


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