Word: beset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost casually as Gallieni, the sharp, sickly Minister of War, sends Gurau to drop a word to the Commander in Chief about the weak de fences at Verdun, so far an inactive part of the front. Gurau is charmed by the apple-cheeked, comfortable Joffre, reassured at lunch but beset by doubts later. The French Intelligence has positive proof that the Germans plan no offensive at Verdun: they have prepared enormous dug outs there but no assault trenches. Nevertheless . . . from that moment the reader is treated to an extended, coolly elaborated piece of such dramatic irony as the Greek tragedians...