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Title: The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, J. Martin (James Martin), b. 1859 Canfield, Harry S. (from old catalog), joint author Plewman, William Rothwell, 1880- (from old catalog) Foch, Ferdinand, 1851-1929 Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945 United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Cleveland, O., The R.C. Barnum co. Detroit, Mich., The F.B. Dickerson co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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French soldiers moving up to the front. This British official photograph shmvs a detachment of stocky Frenchpoilus marching up to the front lines to meet the Huns. HISTORY OF THE WAR 65 courage in that long stretch oT trenchesfrom the North Sea to the Vosges—trenches which were almost continnallvfilled with water and mud. No finer spiritof courage and endurance was ever shownby an army in the field than by these mudcovered poilus, and when tlie spring sunshone down over northern France again,drying the ground so that extended militaryoperations once more were possible, tliestsoldiers asked onlj^ to get at the invaderand hurl him from their soil. The fiercest of the fighting that followedwas in the neighborhood of Arras. In thatconfused and intricate network of trenches,near Nenville Saint-Vaast, where there wasa tangle of two square miles which the Ger-mans thought to be impre.gnable and knownas The Labyrinth, the French threwthemselves upon the enemy with incredibleelan, sustaining

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