Glimpses Through the Cannon Smoke
Subtitle: A Series of Sketches
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780548014042
Subjects: War & Military; Fiction / War; Fiction - Men's  Adventure
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.