Excerpt from Fragments From France When the ardent Jingo of the day after to-morrow rattles the sabre, let there be somewhere handy a copy of Fragments from France that can be opened in front of him, at any page, just to remind him of what war is really like as it is fought in civilised. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.