General Foch at the Marne An Account of the Fighting in and Near the Marshes of Saint-Gond (Classic Reprint)

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M. Ln Gomc's book entitled Les M arm's de Saint Gond deals with the six days' fighting which immediately succeeded the arrest of the French retreat, when the French soldiers were at last allowed to turn round and fight the all-conquering Germans, before whom, for strategic as well as for more obvious reasons, they had been forced to retreat during many bitter days and nights. Heavy sacrifices had been demanded of these men; that even when victorious they should retreat, that they should hold partial successes as nothing, that they should possess their souls in patience. They had been told that they were making a strategic retreat. They believed it at first, but the more the retreat was prolonged, the more suspicion crept in and in these last days their hearts had been sick within them at the thought of the great tracts of their own country they had been forced to cede to the enemy' - and that without striking a blow in their defence.
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