Le Bois-le-Prêtre--Description--History--Les Glycines, "Wisteria Villa"--The Road to the trenches--At the trenches--The painter's idea of "le sinistre dans l'art"--The sign post--The zone of violence--The Quart-en-Réserve--The village caught in the torment of the lines--The dead on the barbed wire--"The Road to Metz." V. THE TRENCHES IN THE "WOOD OF DEATH." The Trenches--Organization--Nature of the war--Food, shelters, clothing, ammunition, etc.--A typical day in the trenches--Trench shells or "crapouilots"--In the abri--The tunnel--The doctrinaire lieutenant of engineers. VI. THE GERMANS ATTACK The piano at Montauville--An interrupted concert--At the Quart--The battle for the ridge of the Wood--Fall of the German aeroplane--Psychology of the men in the trenches--Religion in the trenches-- VII. THE TOWN IN THE TRENCHES Poor old "Pont"--Description of the town--A civilian's story--The house of the Captain of the Papal Zouaves--Church of St. Laurent--The Cemetery and its guardian. VIII. MESSIEURS LES POILUS DE LA GRANDE GUERRE En repos--A village of troops--Manners and morals--The concert--journal of the Bois-le-Prêtre--Various poilus. IX. PREPARING THE DEFENSE OF VERDUN En permission--State of France--The France of 1905 and the France of 1915--The class of 1917--Bar-le-Duc--The air raid--Called to Verdun. X. THE GREAT DAYS OF VERDUN Verdun in 1912--Verdun on the night of the first great attack--The hospital--The shelled cross road--The air shell--The pastry cook's story--The cultivateur of the Valois and the crater at Douaumont--The pompiers of Verdun--"Do you want to see an odd sight?"--Verdun in storm and desolation. A Volunteer Poilu Chapter I The Rochambeau S'en Va-t-en Guerre