E-text prepared by Al Haines Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 17511-h.htm or 17511-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/7/5/1/17511/17511-h/17511-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/7/5/1/17511/17511-h.zip) FOCH THE MAN A Life of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Armies by CLARA E. LAUGHLIN With Appreciation by Lieut.-Col. Edouard Requin of the French High Commission to the United States With Illustrations Revised and Enlarged Edition [Frontispiece: Marshal Foch at the Peace Conference.] New York -------- Chicago Fleming H. Revell Company London and Edinburgh Copyright, 1918, 1919, by Fleming H. Revell Company First Printing - November 11, 1918 Second Printing - November 19, 1918 Third Printing - November 29, 1918 Fourth Printing - December 7, 1918 Fifth Printing - January 9, 1919 Sixth Printing - May 1, 1919 DEDICATION TO THE MEN WHO HAVE FOUGHT UNDER GENERAL FOCH'S COMMAND. TO ALL Of THEM, IN ALL GRATITUDE. BUT IN AN ESPECIAL WAY TO THE MEN OF THE 42D DIVISION, THE SPLENDOR OF WHOSE CONDUCT ON SEPTEMBER 9, 1914, NO PEN WILL EVER BE ABLE ADEQUATELY TO COMMEMORATE. [Illustration: Hand-written letter from Foch.] [Illustration: Page 1 of hand-written letter from Lt.-Colonel E. Requin to Clara Laughlin.] [Illustration: Page 2 of hand-written letter from Lt.-Colonel E. Requin to Clara Laughlin.] [Transcriber's note: The letter in the second and third illustrations is shown translated on the following page.] Dear MADEMOISELLE LAUGHLIN: I have read with the keenest interest your sketch of the life of Marshal Foch. It is not yet history: we are too close to events to write it now, but it is the story of a great leader of men on which I felicitate you because of your real understanding of his character. Christian, Frenchman, soldier, Foch will be held up as an example for future generations as much for his high moral standard as for his military genius. It seems that in writing about him the style rises with the noble sentiments which inspire him. Thus in form of presentation as well as in substance you convey admirably the great lesson which applies to each one of us from the life of Marshal Foch. Please accept, Mademoiselle, this expression of my respectful regards. LT.-COLONEL E. REQUIN. "THEY SHALL NOT PASS!" Three Spirits stood on the mountain peak And gazed on a world of red,-- Red with the blood of heroes, The living and the dead; A mighty force of Evil strove With freemen, mass on mass. Three Spirits stood on the mountain peak And cried: "They shall not pass!"