ISBN: 9781153749077

Excerpt: ...to an extreme degree of comfort and safety. The houses are partly underground, connected by deep winding bowels over which light rustic bridges have been thrown, and so profou… More...

Excerpt: ...to an extreme degree of comfort and safety. The houses are partly underground, connected by deep winding bowels over which light rustic bridges have been thrown, and so profoundly roofed with sods that as much of them as shows above ground is shell-proof. Yet they are real houses, with real doors and windows under their grass-eaves, real furniture inside, and real beds of daisies and pansies at their doors. In the Colonel''s bungalow a big bunch of spring flowers bloomed on the table, and everywhere we saw the same neatness and order, the same amused pride in the look of things. The men were dining at long trestle-tables under the trees; tired, unshaven men in shabby uniforms of all cuts and almost every colour. They were off duty, relaxed, in a good humour; but every face had the look of the faces watching on the hill-top. Wherever I go among these men of the front I have the same impression: the impression that the absorbing undivided thought of the Defense of France lives in the heart and brain of each soldier as intensely as in the heart and brain of their chief. We walked a dozen yards down the road and came to the edge of the forest. A wattled palisade bounded it, and through a gap in the palisade we looked out across a field to the roofs of a quiet village a mile away. I went out a few steps into the field and was abruptly pulled back. Take care Edith Wharton, Books, History, Fighting France, From Dunkerque To Belfort Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781153749077

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ISBN: 9781153749077

Fighting France, from Dunkerque to BelfortBy Edith Wharton Books, Fiction~~Classics, Fighting-France-from-Dunkerque-to-Belfort~~Edith-Wharton, 999999999, Fighting France, from Dunkerque t… More...

Fighting France, from Dunkerque to BelfortBy Edith Wharton Books, Fiction~~Classics, Fighting-France-from-Dunkerque-to-Belfort~~Edith-Wharton, 999999999, Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort, Edith Wharton, 1153749076, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<