Account of events in the sections of France occupied by the Germans during World War I. According to the Preface: "This little book gives a very graphic and interesting account by an eye-witness--who knows how to write!--of life in the occupied provinces of France under the daily pressure of the German invasion. There are many repulsive and odious incidents recorded here of the German occupation, but, mercifully, few "atrocities," such as those which make of the French Governmental Reports, or that of the Bryce Commission, tales of horror and infamy that time will never wash out. These pages relate to the neighbourhood of Laon, and the worst brutalities committed by German soldiers in France seem to have happened farther south, along the line of the German retreat during the battle of the Marne, and in the border villages of Lorraine. But the picture drawn of the Germans in possession of a French country district, robbing and bullying its inhabitants, and delighting in all the petty tyrannies of their military régime, is one that writes in large-hand the lesson of this war."
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Six Women and the Invasion
Account of events in the sections of France occupied by the Germans during World War I. According to the Preface: "This little book gives a very graphic and interesting account by an eye-witness--who knows how to write!--of life in the occupied provinces of France under the daily pressure of the German invasion. There are many repulsive and odious incidents recorded here of the German occupation, but, mercifully, few "atrocities," such as those which make of the French Governmental Reports, or that of the Bryce Commission, tales of horror and infamy that time will never wash out. These pages relate to the neighbourhood of Laon, and the worst brutalities committed by German soldiers in France seem to have happened farther south, along the line of the German retreat during the battle of the Marne, and in the border villages of Lorraine. But the picture drawn of the Germans in possession of a French country district, robbing and bullying its inhabitants, and delighting in all the petty tyrannies of their military régime, is one that writes in large-hand the lesson of this war."
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| ISBN-13: | 9781455411757 |
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| Publisher: | B&R Samizdat Express |
| Publication date: | 04/01/2011 |
| Sold by: | Smashwords |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 533 KB |
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