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Title: Fields of Victory

Author: Mrs. Humphry Ward

Release Date: October 22, 2004 [EBook #13827]

Language: English

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FIELDS OF VICTORY

By

Mrs. Humphry Ward

With Illustrations, Colored Map
and Folding Statistical Chart

1919,
by Charles Scribner's Sons
New York

Published September, 1919

1919,
by The Evening Mail Syndicate

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

A WORD OF INTRODUCTION vii

I. FRANCE UNDER THE ARMISTICE 3

II. THE DEFENSIVE BATTLE OF LAST SPRING 27

III. TANKS AND THE HINDENBURG LINE 57

IV. GENERAL GOURAUD AT STRASBOURG 92

V. ALSACE-LORRAINE--THE GLORY OF VERDUN 111

VI. AMERICA IN FRANCE 134

VII. AMERICA IN FRANCE (_continued_) 166

VIII. "FEATURES OF THE WAR" 184

IX. TANKS AND AEROPLANES--THE STAFF WORK OF THE WAR 213

EPILOGUE 258

APPENDIX--EXPLANATION OF CHART 269

A WORD OF INTRODUCTION

_May 26th._

It is a bold thing, I fear, to offer the public yet more letters based
on a journey through the battle-fields of France--especially at a
moment when impressions are changing so fast, when the old forms of
writing about the war seem naturally out of date, or even distasteful,
and the new are not yet born. Yet perhaps in this intermediate period,
the impressions of one who made two journeys over some of the same
ground in 1916 and 1917, while the great struggle was at its height,
and on this third occasion found herself on the Western front just two
months after the Armistice, may not be unwelcome to those who, like
myself, feel the need of detaching as soon as possible some general
and consistent ideas from the i