Travelling from Dijon to Belfort, into reconquered Alsace and on to Nancy and Verdun, Gerald Campbell describes the eastern frontier of France in the first years of the war. He writes of fortresses, frontier towns, refugees, wounded soldiers and the civil officials who kept life going close to the front, with maps of the region.
A clear-eyed picture of the French eastern front before the great battle of Verdun. Download the free EPUB.