2-710-893 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'An Incident in the Battles of the Meuse', (1919). Scene from the First World War, 1914-1919: 'The region between the Meuse and the upper courses of the Aisne [rivers], forming a plateau of wooded hills referred to in dispatches as the "Argonne", was a difficult country from a military point of view, and was the scene of desperate and stubborn battles. Villages in this region frequently passed alternately from French to German hands.' From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. III, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]