Vingt jours de guerre aux temps héroïques
Subtitle: carnet de route d'un commandant de compagnie (Août 1914)
Series: La guerre.  Les récits des témoins
Publisher: Berger-Levrault
Published: 1918
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives
Description: A book describing the author's experiences during the first few days of the Great War, notably during the battle for Ethe in Belgium near to the French border north of Verdun. What the book shows is how unready the French forces were to fight a mechanised machine-gun orientated war using a methodology based on the tactics of the Franco-Prussian War some 40 years earlier. As a writer of military history, Grasset describes his initiation into 20th century warfare in all too graphic detail - an initiation that left him scarred both mentally and physically. The final chapter of the book tells of German atrocities during the German advance into Belgium around the Ethe-Gomery area.
Table of contents: title: Chapter I        Avant; title: Chapter II       Jours de fievre; title: Chapter III      Mobilisation; title: Chapter IV      Vers la frontier; title: Chapter V       Un combat entendu de loin; title: Chapter VI      Journees de bivouac et d'ennui; title: Chapter VII     En couverture; title: Chapter VIII    Concentration; title: Chapter IX      Au contact de l'ennemi; title: Chapter X      Cantonnement d'alerte; title: Chapter XI     En avant dans le brouillard; title: Chapter XII    La bataille; title: Chapter XIII   Victoire et retraite; title: Chapter XIV   Le retour; title: Chapter XV    Les atrocities allemandes - Les massacres d'Ethe; title: Les massacres de Gomery