CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| I. | [My Trip to Verdun—General Pétain Face to Face] | 3 |
| The men who hold the line—what their faces told of the past and the future of France. | ||
| II. | [My Trip to Verdun—A Dying, Shell-Ridden City] | 43 |
| The Vauban Citadel, in the shelter of which falling shells cannot find you—houses and blocks that are vanishing hourly—"but William will not come"—war that is invisible—a luncheon underground with a toast to America—the last courtesy from a general and a host—nothing that was not beautiful. | ||
| III. | [Battle of Verdun Another Gettysburg] | 72 |
| Failure of Crown Prince likened by French to "high tide" of confederacy. | ||
| IV. | [Verdun, the Door That Leads Nowhere] | 95 |
| The battle and the topography of the battlefield—an analysis of the attack and defence. | ||
| V. | [In Sight of the Promised Land—on the Lorraine Battlefield] | 116 |