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THEY SHALL NOT PASS







THEY
SHALL NOT PASS



BY

FRANK H. SIMONDS

AUTHOR OF "THE GREAT WAR"



Publisher's Mark



Garden City            New York
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1916







Copyright, 1916, by
Doubleday, Page & Company

All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian




COPYRIGHT, 1916, THE TRIBUNE ASS'N.










Grateful acknowledgment is hereby made to the New York Tribune forpermission to reprint these articles in book form.






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CONTENTS


  PAGE
I.My Trip to Verdun—General Pétain Face to Face3
 The men who hold the line—what their faces told of the past and the future of France. 
II.My Trip to Verdun—A Dying, Shell-Ridden City43
 The Vauban Citadel, in the shelter of which falling shells cannot find you—houses and blocks that are vanishing hourly—"but William will not come"—war that is invisible—a luncheon underground with a toast to America—the last courtesy from a general and a host—nothing that was not beautiful. 
III.Battle of Verdun Another Gettysburg72
 Failure of Crown Prince likened by French to "high tide" of confederacy. 
IV.Verdun, the Door That Leads Nowhere95[viii]
 The battle and the topography of the battlefield—an analysis of the attack and defence. 
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