Glimpses Through The Cannon Smoke A Series Of Sketches
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: April 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781417906116
Subjects: War fiction; Fiction - Men's  Adventure; Fiction; War & Military
First sentence: THE interval between the declaration of the Franco-German war of 1870-1, and the "military promenade," at which the poor Prince Imperial received his "baptism of fire," was a pleasant lazy time at Saarbruck; to which pretty frontier town I had early betaken myself, in the anticipation-which proved well founded-that the tide of war would flow that way first.