The Project Gutenberg EBook of They Shall Not Pass, by Frank H. Simonds

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

Title: They Shall Not Pass

Author: Frank H. Simonds

Release Date: February 24, 2009 [EBook #28171]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THEY SHALL NOT PASS ***

Produced by Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was
produced from images generously made available by The
Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

* * * * *

+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| Transcriber's Note: |
| |
| Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For |
| a complete list, please see the end of this document. |
| |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+

* * * * *

THEY SHALL NOT PASS

THEY
SHALL NOT PASS

BY
FRANK H. SIMONDS
AUTHOR OF "THE GREAT WAR"

[Illustration]

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1916

_Copyright, 1916, by_
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

_All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian_

COPYRIGHT, 1916, THE TRIBUNE ASS'N.

Grateful acknowledgment is hereby made to the New York _Tribune_ for
permission to reprint these articles in book form.

CONTENTS

PAGE

I. MY TRIP TO VERDUN--GENERAL PETAIN FACE TO FACE 3

The men who hold the line--what their faces told of the
past and the future of France.

II. MY TRIP TO VERDUN--A DYING, SHELL-RIDDEN CITY 43

The Vauban Citadel, in the shelter of which falling
shells cannot find you--houses and blocks that are
vanishing hourly--"but William will not come"--war
that is invisible--a luncheon underground with a toast
to America--the last courtesy from a general and a
host--nothing that was not beautiful.

III. BATTLE OF VERDU