Experiences of a French lieutenant This book is a valuable and authentic first-hand account of service in the Great War on the Western Front, recorded by a young French infantry officer in his diary, which he informs us bears the marks of war--bloodstains, smears of mud and 'from cover to cover, a hole made by a tiny piece of steel'.
When war broke out the author was a university student, but before long he found himself fighting on the 'barren plain known as la Cha.