With Joffre at Verdun: A Story of the Western Front

by F. S. Brereton

Illustrated by Arch. Webb

BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED
LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY
1916

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BY LT.-COLONEL BRERETON

With the Allies to the Rhine: A Story of the Finish of the War.
With Allenby in Palestine: A Story of the latest Crusade.
Under Foch's Command: A Tale of the Americans in France.
The Armoured-Car Scouts: The Campaign in the Caucasus.
On the Road to Bagdad: A Story of the British Expeditionary Force in Mesopotamia.
From the Nile to the Tigris: Campaigning from Western Egypt to Mesopotamia.
Under Haig in Flanders: A Story of Vimy, Messines, and Ypres.
With Joffre at Verdun: A Story of the Western Front.
On the Field of Waterloo.
With Wellington in Spain: A Story of the Peninsula.
Kidnapped by Moors: A Story of Morocco.
The Hero of Panama: A Tale of the Great Canal.
The Great Aeroplane: A Thrilling Tale of Adventure.
A Hero of Sedan: A Tale of the Franco-Prussian War.
Roger the Bold: A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico.
At Grips with the Turk: A Story of the Dardanelles Campaign.
The Great Airship.
A Sturdy Young Canadian.
A Boy of the Dominion: A Tale of Canadian Immigration.
Under the Chinese Dragon: A Tale of Mongolia.
With Roberts to Candahar: Third Afghan War.
A Hero of Lucknow: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny.
Under French's Command: A Story of the Western Front from Neuve Chapelle to Loos.
With French at the Front: A Story of the Great European War down to the Battle of the Aisne.
John Bargreave's Gold: A Search for Sunken Treasure.
Tom Stapleton, the Boy Scout.
A Soldier of Japan: A Tale of the Russo-Japanese War.
A Knight of St. John: A Tale of the Siege of Malta.
Foes of the Red Cockade: The French Revolution.
One of the Fighting Scouts: Guerrilla War in South Africa.
The Dragon of Pekin: A Story of the Boxer Revolt.
A Gallant Grenadier: A Story of the Crimean War.
LONDON: BLACKIE & SON, LTD., 50 OLD BAILEY, E.C.

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Contents

CHAP.
I.	[THE CAMP AT RUHLEBEN]
II.	[HENRI AND JULES AND STUART]
III.	[THE ROAD TO FREEDOM]
IV.	[THE HEART OF GERMANY]
V.	[ELUDING THE PURSUERS]
VI.	[CHANGING THEIR DIRECTION]
VII.	[A FRIEND IN NEED]
VIII.	[THE VERDUN SALIENT]
IX.	[A TERRIFIC BOMBARDMENT]
X.	[THE THIN LINE OF HEROES]
XI.	[FALLING BACK]
XII.	[A RECONNOITRING-PARTY]
XIII.	[DOUAUMONT FORTRESS]
XIV.	[FRENCHMEN AND BRANDENBURGERS]
XV.	[RATS IN A TRAP]
XVI.	[A FIGHT TO A FINISH]
XVII.	[CHARGE OF THE GALLANT BRETONS]
XVIII.	[A SINISTER GERMAN]
XIX.	[HEROIC "POILUS"]

Illustrations

[ "THE SERGEANT OF HENRI'S PLATOON, ONE ARM DANGLING HELPLESS BY HIS
SIDE, STRETCHED OUT A BRAWNY HAND AND GRIPPED OUR HERO'S"
(missing from book) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece
]