Download or read book A Visit to Sir Douglas Haig (Classic Reprint) written by Isaac F. Marcosson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Visit to Sir Douglas Haig For days I had run the gamut of the guns: ranged the whole far-flung British battle-line until the world seemed a tumult of trench and traffic shaken by a deadly din. Suddenly I came to a quiet backwater near this whirlpool of war. It was a modest chateau well off the beaten road, so screened by French poplars that its quietude suggested the aloof and untroubled days of peace. The red flag that fluttered at the gate, the presence of more than the usual number of sentries, the distant rumble of artillery, were the only external evidences that this secluded house which basked in the winter sun was linked with the world's greatest conflict. Yet amid those friendly trees is the nerve centre of the mightiest English military machine ever created: from its pleasant drawing-room that looks out upon an old-world garden are issued the commands at which millions of armed men leap to action: toward it countless anxious hearts turn every day for the tidings of cheer or despair. For here are the Headquarters of Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, Commander-in-Chief of all the British Armies in France and Flanders. 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."