2-710-679 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'A Brilliant French Attack on the German Position in the Argonne', (1919). Scene from the First World War, 1914-1919: 'The German guns stationed on the Argonne heights were pouring a murderous cannonade of bursting shell into the French trenches, and, despite drenching rain...the French infantry advanced stealthily up towards the German batteries and engaged in a fierce hand-to-hand conflict, in which the Germans were defeated...the heavy German guns sank to their axles and had to be abandoned...' From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. II, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]