Christian Mallet served with the 22nd Dragoons in the opening campaigns of the war, when French cavalry still charged German trenches by night near Compiègne. He writes of the retreat and the Marne, the Belgian fighting and scenes such as a farm full of dead men frozen in terror, with the immediacy of a soldier’s notebook.
A rare cavalryman’s view of 1914 from the French side. Download the free EPUB.