Fighting France

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Stéphane Lauzanne. Fighting France

Fighting France

Table of Contents

WHY FRANCE IS FIGHTING

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HOW FRANCE IS FIGHTING

III

FRANCE SUFFERING BUT NOT BLED WHITE

IV

THE WAR AIMS OF FRANCE

APPENDICES

APPENDIX I

HOW GERMANS FORCED WAR ON FRANCE

APPENDIX II

HOW GERMANS TREAT AN AMBASSADOR

APPENDIX III

HOW GERMANS ARE WAGING WAR

APPENDIX IV

HOW GERMANS OCCUPY THE TERRITORY OF AN ENEMY

APPENDIX V

HOW GERMANS TREAT ALSACE-LORRAINE

APPENDIX VI

HOW GERMANS UNDERSTAND FUTURE PEACE

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Stéphane Lauzanne

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Paris, which didn't know about the Battle of Charleroi, knew about the Battle of the Marne. Paris knew about the Battle of the Marne not only on account of the troops who marched through its streets, but because it heard the big guns roar for three days, without stopping, towards the north.

What has not already been written and said about the Battle of the Marne, a conflict which will remain legendary in history? What will not be said and written on that subject in the future? … Some writers will see in it a miracle, others a strategic action engineered by a genius, others a chance stroke of destiny. The truth of the matter is more simple and appealing than any of these explanations and, although the whole truth is not yet known about the fight at the Marne, enough is known to make clear the two or three chief reasons why victory came to France and defeat to Germany, safety to civilization and a repulse to barbarism.

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