2-710-714 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Fighting for the Lost Province of Alsace', (1919). Scene from the First World War, 1914-1919: 'The marvellous effect of the French artillery on the German lines on the Alsatian frontier...An artillery attack with the famous 75 gun is here shown in full progress.' Battle over the disputed territory of Alsace. Germany ceded the region to France under the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. IV, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]