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Verdun to the Vosges: Impressions of the War on the Fortress Frontier of France

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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About This Book

A newspaper correspondent's frontline account presents firsthand observations from a fortress-lined frontier during the early war, combining dispatches, maps, and personal anecdotes gathered with a local colleague. The narrative alternates between descriptions of trench life and battlefield incidents and wider reflections on troop morale, civilian endurance under invasion, and allied collaboration. Practical reportage of operations and daily hardships is balanced with contemplative notes on national character, the influence of the press, and the steady defensive efforts that shaped the course of fighting along this border region.

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 above Lunéville 190
 
Outside the Préfecture, Nancy 202
 
Nomeny 214
 
Réméréville 222
 
Château de Haraucourt 222
 
French Attack from Cemetery of Rehainviller near Lunéville 258
 
Church at Drouville 286