Excerpt from The Trail of the Barbarians: Being "L'outrage Des Barbares" But, in spite of lack of leisure, I will quarrel With the Master as to his employment of one word: the word irreparable. I have seen ruined France - such of it as is ruined - and have seen on the Somme the mole-work that is demanded of the foot-slogger, and, probably because the mole can see what is going on below ground better than he who passes beneath the rose and grey skies of a French spring, I am more sure than Mr. Loti that the grass is already moving that shall cover the graveyards and the rusty heaps of recovered provinces. 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.