North-Eastern France (The Blue Guides) [1930 2nd edition, Battlefield Guide]

North-Eastern France (The Blue Guides) [1930 2nd edition, Battlefield Guide]

Author: Findlay Muirhead and Marcel Monmarché (Editors)

Year: 1930

Digitised by Google Books from the collection of the University of Michigan, see Source below. Full title The Blue Guides. North-Eastern France with a complete Atlas of North-Eastern France and 54 other maps and plans The Preface says "The present guide to NORTH-EASTERN FRANCE, now in its second edition, deals with the part of France lying N.E. of a line running roughly southwards from Boulogne, through Paris, to Lyons—a region of profound interest including the Battle Area with its tragic memories of 1914-18, the restored lands of Alsace and Lorraine, the historic and picturesque provinces of Burgundy and Franche-Comté, the French Vosges, and the French Jura. No aspect that appeals to the traveller has been wittingly ignored, and an effort has been made to achieve accuracy and clearness in practical detail and fulness of description without unduly neglecting historical and literary associations. Especial attention has been paid to the interests of the visitor to the battlefields and of the student of the Great War. Maj. Gen. Sir Frederick Maurice's article on the British Campaigns in the West and the summary of the American Operations are supplemented by a brief sketch of the Fren