A Village In Picardy 1918

Author : Ruth Louise Gaines
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ISBN 13 : 9781436756907
Total Pages : 212 pages
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Author : Ruth Gaines
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Total Pages : 218 pages
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Author : Ruth Gaines
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230256511
Total Pages : 30 pages
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Download or read book A Village in Picardy written by Ruth Gaines and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV FIDELISSIMA, PICARDIE SINCE the commencement of this short volume, the German flood has rolled again across the Somme. Peronne, Nesle, Ham, Noyon, those towns mentioned so often and so gloriously in the annals of France, have fallen once more into the hands of the enemy. With them go the villages where my Unit laboured. Canizy, it is no more. The greenbladed wheatfields have become fields of unspeakable carnage; the poor ruins again smoke to heaven, and down the shattered highways course endlessly the grey columns of that Emperor whose empire is pillage and death. What, then, remains to us of our labours? At least a memory in the lives of the peasants, and a present help in this their time of stress. Our villagers were rescued, and taken by spews cial trains to safety. The Unit accomplished this work of succour. Their trucks were driven under shell fire through the villages to collect the inhabitants; sometimes they were the last over the bridges; they left our headquarters only when the Uhlans were within charging distance; they have fed and clothed thousands of refugees and soldiers. Mentioned with them in the newspaper accounts of their service is our Red Cross truck driver, Dave. The fate that has overtaken our peasants, what is it but a repetition of the immemorial blows that have welded and tempered their ancestral spirit? As one of their historians has limned them: "Les Picards sont francs et unis. ... lls vivent de peu. ... II arrive rarement que l'activite et le desir de s'avancer les determinent a sortir de leur pays. . . . lls sont sinceres, fideles, libres, brusques, attaches a leurs opinions, fermes dans leurs resolutions." * It was to this spirit that 'Introduction a la histoire generate de la Province de...

Author : Ruth Gaines
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781354960783
Total Pages : 214 pages
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Author : Ruth Louise 1877 Gaines
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781373289162
Total Pages : 216 pages
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Author : Ruth Louise Gaines
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ISBN 13 : 9781356226627
Total Pages : 212 pages
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Total Pages : 528 pages
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Total Pages : 364 pages
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Total Pages : 434 pages
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