Vive la France!

A collection of frontline reports recounts life and combat on the Western battle-lines, following French and British operations in sectors such as the Vosges, Alsace, and Champagne. It blends descriptive scene-setting of trenches, artillery barrages, mines, gas and aerial encounters with accounts of assaults, captured positions, prisoners, and the work of medics and hospitals. Photographic impressions and campaign vignettes convey the physical destruction, scale of ordnance, improvisations of field services, and the endurance and sacrifices of soldiers amid sustained offensive and defensive operations.