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Title: The Note-Book of an Attache
Seven Months in the War Zone

Author: Eric Fisher Wood

Release Date: October 5, 2009 [EBook #30179]

Language: English

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The Note Book
Of An Attache

Seven Months in the War Zone

By ERIC FISHER WOOD

With Illustrations from Photographs

A. L. BURT COMPANY

Publishers New York

Published by Arrangements with THE CENTURY COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY
THE CENTURY CO.

_Published, June, 1915_

[Illustration: MR. MYRON T. HERRICK]

FOREWORD

When the war-storm suddenly loomed over Europe at the end of July,
1914, I was quietly studying architecture in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts
at Paris. When Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia on July 24th,
the atmosphere of the city became so surcharged with excitement that
to persist in study was difficult. Within a week I myself had been
swept into the vortex of rushing events, from which I did not emerge
until seven months later.

I became Attache at the American Embassy in Paris under the regime of
Mr. Herrick, and as such lived through the first exciting months of
the great war. During the months of September, October, and November,
I made four different trips to the front, covering territory which
extended along the battle-line from Vitry-le-Francois in the east to a
point near Dunkirk in the west. I saw parts of the battles of the
Marne and the Aisne, and the struggle for Calais.

The months of December and January I spent as a bearer of special
dispatches between the American Embassies and went several times to
France, England, Switzerland, Holland, Germany, Austria, and Hungary.
I have seen French, British, Belgian, and German troops in action. I
have seen French, Swiss, Dutch, German, Austrian, and Hungarian troops
in manoeuvres. I spent the first week of February in Paris, leaving
there for America on February 10th.

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