Word: verdun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ocean. Some of his early youth was spent in England, where he went to school for a time. He attended Harvard but was not graduated. His War record is somewhat complicated. He enlisted in the Morgan-Harjes ambulance unit. His section was in the big attack around Verdun and Mort Homme in 1917. After the ambulance section broke up, he attempted to enlist in the Army but was rejected because of defective eyesight. He went to Italy, drove an ambulance up and down Mt. Grappa during the height of the Austrian drive. He returned to America in July...
Diplomats and strategists do not tire of assuring us that the war, which was begun on the Marne and the Somme, in the Argonne and at Verdun, is being fought out on the Ruhr and the Weser, in Essen and Geisenkirchen. The situation is not unlike that in early 1917, except that now it is England that is proposing the formula of "peace without victory...
...Eugene Criqui, who fought at Verdun as well as the Polo Grounds...
There is another scene of which I am reminded. One afternoon in September of 1918, I stood on a hill north of Verdun and looked up and down a great valley. As far as the eye could reach, there were row on row of little white crosses. More than six million of the finest men of Europe lie under those crosses in France and Flanders, and on the other fields of battle. Back of those crosses and back of those boys still in the hospital wards, there are others who seem to rise. They are the young women of Europe...
...taxicab army that saved Paris is one of the few legends of the war that time has not demolished. In that long, swaying line that ran from Verdun past Fere-Champenoise and the marshes of Saint Gond almost to the gates of Paris--German cavalry were in the town of Claye for a few hours, but fifteen miles away--it was the army of Gallieni, on the extreme right flank of Von Kluck, that began the counter attack which dislocated the German line and gave Foch his chance to break through. Thus these old cochers of the boulevards who drove...