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Excerpt from The English Review: April, 1916 The story of a young French Chasseur officer who joined his regiment during the precipitate retreat after Mons. The disappointment, the horror of the fight, the joyful recrudescence of hope and confidence _when the order for advance was given on the Marne, and the Splendid victory that followed, give the book a character of thrilling romance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.