Paul Lintier served as a gunner with a battery of the famous French 75-millimetre field gun in the opening months of the war. He records the mobilisation, the confusion of the frontier battles near the Meuse, retreat and the Marne with a novelist’s eye for fear, fatigue, comradeship and the sight of mysterious troops in the morning mist.
A powerful French war memoir by a writer killed in 1916, here in English with a preface by Frances Wilson Huard. Download the free EPUB.