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Sir William Orpen. An Onlooker in France 1917-1919
An Onlooker in France 1917-1919
Table of Contents
PREFACE
AN ONLOOKER IN FRANCE
CHAPTER I
TO FRANCE (APRIL 1917)
CHAPTER II
THE SOMME (APRIL 1917)
CHAPTER III
AT BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS AND ST. POL (MAY-JUNE 1917)
CHAPTER IV
THE YPRES SALIENT (JUNE-JULY 1917)
CHAPTER V
THE SOMME IN SUMMER-TIME (AUGUST 1917)
CHAPTER VI
THE SOMME (SEPTEMBER 1917)
CHAPTER VII
WITH THE FLYING CORPS (OCTOBER 1917)
CHAPTER VIII
CASSEL AND IN HOSPITAL (NOVEMBER 1917)
CHAPTER IX
WINTER (1917–1918)
CHAPTER X
LONDON (MARCH-JUNE 1918)
CHAPTER XI
BACK IN FRANCE (JULY-SEPTEMBER 1918)
CHAPTER XII
AMIENS (OCTOBER 1918)
CHAPTER XIII
NEARING THE END (OCTOBER 1918)
CHAPTER XIV
THE PEACE CONFERENCE
CHAPTER XV
PARIS DURING THE PEACE CONFERENCE
CHAPTER XVI
THE SIGNING OF THE PEACE
INDEX
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Sir William Orpen
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Then, when darkness came on, strange women—the riff-raff from Paris, the expelled from Rouen, in fact the badly diseased from all parts of France—hovered about in the blackness with their electric torches, and led the unknowing away to blackened side-streets and up dim stairways—to what? Anyway, for an hour or so they were out of the rain and mud, but afterwards? Often did I go with Freddie Fane, the A.P.M., to these dens of filth to drag fine men away from disease.
