An Onlooker in France 1917-1919

Project Gutenberg's An Onlooker in France 1917-1919, by William Orpen This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: An Onlooker in France 1917-1919 Author: William Orpen Release Date: December 29, 2006 [EBook #20215] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AN ONLOOKER IN FRANCE 1917-1919 *** Produced by Geetu Melwani, Christine P. Travers, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) AN ONLOOKER IN FRANCE I. Field-Marshal Earl Haig of Bemersyde, O.M., K.T., etc. AN ONLOOKER IN FRANCE 1917-1919 BY SIR WILLIAM ORPEN, K.B.E., R.A. LONDON WILLIAMS AND NORGATE 1921 Pictures and Text, Copyright 1921 by SIR WILLIAM ORPEN, K.B.E., R.A. PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED, PARIS GARDEN, STAMFORD ST., S.E. 1, AND BUNGAY, SUFFOLK. PREFACE This book must not be considered as a serious work on life in France behind the lines, it is merely an attempt to record some certain little incidents that occurred in my own life there.