Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Steed Henry Wickham
Title : A programme for peace
Year : 1917

Link download : Steed_Henry_Wickham_-_A_programme_for_peace.zip

On the morning of Saturday, March 4, the thirteenth day of the battle of Verdun, I stood, with others on a low spur to the north-west of the town and heard, rather than watched, the preparation of the second German attack upon the village of Douaumont. A few hundred yards below us French batteries were snapping out defiance at the invisible German guns across the Meuse and beyond the nearest heights. ...