For the British the enemy’s assault was especially furious, but it failed both in breaking their lines and their spirit. Travel-stained, bearded and unwashed, their courage remained undaunted. The Allies fought as they fell back and fought again, until they met and defeated the army of the Crown Prince on September 6–7. Here the march of the invader was arrested, and the next episode of the war was the victorious fight against the Germans on the Marne. The despatches of Sir John French and the official _communiqués_ issued by the French War Office supply us with the barest events of the war, but for a picture of the actual fighting and the heroic deeds of our brave men we must turn to the many stories told by the soldiers themselves and other witnesses, some of which we have quoted. Ever since the South African Campaign the art of war has changed and the combatants in the present campaign are fighting under circumstances that have never before prevailed, in many cases with weapons that have not before been used on the battlefield. Air-craft for reconnaissances, and armed motor-cars and motor-bicycles and motor vehicles for transport and other purposes, have gone far towards revolutionising warfare; although introduced in the Balkan war they are being utilised to a much greater extent in the present conflict. Sufficient has been said incidentally in this book with regard to the German methods of warfare. The justice of our cause has been demonstrated by able statesmen as well as by men of every shade of opinion and creed. Their relentless persecution of the neutral State of Belgium, and their brutal disregard of all recognised canons of humanity, so far from terrorising the Allies, have strengthened their determination to fight to the bitter end Germany the enemy of the world. PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY R. CLAY AND SONS, LTD., BRUNSWICK ST., S.E., AND BUNGAY, SUFFOLK. [Illustration: =COPYRIGHT=: SPECIALLY PREPARED FOR =The Daily Telegraph= BY "GEOGRAPHIA" LTD 55 FLEET STREET LONDOON E C ALEXANDER GROSS F.R.G.S. ] Transcriber’s Notes Text on cover added by Transcriber and placed in the Public Domain. The original cover appears as an image within some versions of this eBook. The final illustration is a detailed map of north-eastern France. A large version of it may be found in the materials for this eBook at http://www.gutenberg.org/. Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained. Some multi-paragraph quotations did not use opening quotation marks for the inner paragraphs, while others did. That inconsistent style was retained here. Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained. End of Project Gutenberg's The Fighting Retreat To Paris, by Roger Ingpen