Verdun to the Vosges. Impressions of the War on the Fortress Frontier
of France. By GERALD CAMPBELL, Special Correspondent of _The Times_ in
the East of France. _With Illustrations and Maps._ =10s. 6d. net.=
“A deeply impressive, well-informed book. Mr. Campbell’s book will well
repay careful and patient study. It penetrates beneath the surface of
the fighting.”――_Daily Telegraph._
“A well-written and well-illustrated volume. Mr. Campbell had many
fine opportunities, and used them both wisely and well. He gives us
many a shocking picture of the brutality and bestiality of the German
invaders.”――_Morning Post._
“This book contains, so far as we know, the only careful and
trustworthy account of those months of intense fighting which has
yet been published. Historians will have to turn to these pages for
information in regard to many details of the confused events of the
early days in this theatre.”――_The Times._
A French Mother in War time. By MADAME E. DRUMONT. Translated by MISS
G. BEVIR. =3s. 6d. net.=
The writer of this frank and simple narrative is the wife of the
famous anti-Semite, but the young airman son, to whom she is devotedly
attached, is the child of a first marriage. The volume consists of her
diary from July, 1914, to August, 1915. This anxious French mother
makes no attempt to represent herself as more heroic than she was or
is, and her honesty gives a special value to her picture of the central
and really fine figure in the book――that of her son Paul, many of whose
letters to her during the war are here given. Among other interesting
passages in the book is a description of the scene at the Paris Cabinet
Council, when General Gallieni was asked by the Ministry if he would
defend Paris.
A Surgeon in Khaki. By A. A. MARTIN, M.D., F.R.C.S. Eng. _With
Illustrations. Fifth Impression._ =10s. 6d. net.=
“A superlatively interesting book.”――_Graphic._
“A book full of life and human feeling. ‘A Surgeon in Khaki’ will
certainly live as a first-class description of a portion of the great
war.”――_Field._
“A book of extraordinary interest. There are many stories, grave
and gay, in this book, which should be widely read. It is quite
a remarkable book, and gives a wonderful vision of what war
is.”――_Birmingham Daily Post._
With Our Army in Flanders, 1915. By G. VALENTINE WILLIAMS.
_Illustrated. Second Impression._ =12s. 6d. net.=
“Mr. Williams has written an excellent book, one of the most vivid and
informing accounts that have yet been produced of our men in the field.
Like all good correspondents, he has an eye for significant detail. His
knowledge of Germany helps him to many instructive comparisons. He is
the master of an easy, vigorous style, which occasionally reaches real
eloquence. Above all, he has a great gift of enthusiasm. The book is
written in a fine spirit, not captious, or egotistical, or flamboyant,
but honest and understanding.”――_Spectator._
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