The Last Days of Fort Vaux
by Henry Bordeaux
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About this eBook
- Author
- Bordeaux, Henry, 1870-1963
- Title
- The Last Days of Fort Vaux, March 9-June 7, 1916
- Credits
- Produced by Brian Coe, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- D501: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War I (1914-1918)
- Subject
- Verdun, Battle of, Verdun, France, 1916
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 48532
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48532
- Release Date
- March 19, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE LAST DAYS OF FORT VAUX
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.THE LAST DAYS OF FORT VAUX — BOOK I — I THE FORT
- 5.II WHAT THE FORT SAW ( Before February 21, 1916 )
- 6.BOOK II THE BATTLE — I THE FLIGHT OF THE RAVENS
- 7.II THE ROAD ( March 11 )
- 8.III THE MASTER OF THE HOUR ( March 14 )
- 9.IV THE FIRST FIGHTS ROUND VAUX ( March 9, 10, 11 )
- 10.V ROUND THE WASHING-PLACE ( March 18 ) — Extract from the Diary of the Abbé C——, Chaplain to the 3rd Battalion of Light Infantry.
- 11.VI REFLECTIONS ON DEATH
- 12.VII THE ENEMY’S EVIDENCE
- 13.VIII FROM MARCH 30 TO MAY 31 — Diary of Captain Delvert ( May 18–24 )
- 14.BOOK III THE STRANGLEHOLD — I STONES AND MEN
- 15.II THE STRANGLEHOLD TIGHTENS IN THE WEST ( June 1) — Captain Delvert’s Diary, June 2–5
- 16.III THE STRANGLEHOLD TIGHTENS IN THE EAST ( June 2)
- 17.BOOK IV THE LAST WEEK — I THE BATTLE AT THE FORT ( June 2)
- 18.II THE FORT APPEALS
- 19.III THE SORTIE
- 20.IV SOME ONE RE-ENTERS THE FORT
- 21.V THE LAST WORDS
- 22.BOOK V THE DÉNOUEMENT — I THE GERMAN ACCOUNT — Part I — Part II
- 23.II THE FINAL EFFORT — From Cadet Bégouen’s Notebook
- 24.III THE HARVEST OF THE FUTURE
- 25.Transcriber’s Notes
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