The Price of Glory (67 page)

Tranchée des Baïonnettes
,
268-9

trench warfare,
61
,
174-6

Troisième Bureau
(Operations),
11
,
24

‘
Trouée de Charmes
’,
5

Tyrol,
281

U-boat campaign, see
submarine warfare

Union Sacrée,
10
,
197
,
274

United States of America,
1
,
27
,
213
,
217-18
,
295
,
325
,
331-2
; and see
American Ambulance Field Service
;
Lafayette Squadron

Vacherauville, Fort,
99

Valéry, Paul,
242

Vauban, Sébastien de,
5
,
48
,
106

Vaulet, Col.,
90
,
95
,
97-8

Vauquois,
48

Vaux,
102
,
160
,
351
; Fort,
48
,
155-6
,
246
,
248-9
; lost,
252-66
,
267
; recaptured,
317
,
318
,
338
,
343

Verdun, City of,
46-91
preparations at (1916),
49-55
; post-war,
349

Vichy France,
344

‘
Vie Douce, La
’,
7

Villa Poiret,
126
,
319-20

Ville,
59
; Bois de,
75
,
87

Villers-Cotterets, Forest of,
333

Vimy Ridge,
137

Vincent, Maj.,
89

Viollette, Deputy,
275

Vittarville,
75-6

Voie Sacrée,
148
,
349

Voigt, Lt.,
116

Waldau, Lt.-Col. Hoffman von,
220

Waldersee, Count von,
31

Wavrille, Bois de,
96

Weber Pasha, Maj.-Gen.,
254

Wehrmacht,
278

Wendt, Hermann,
39-40
,
208
,
329-40

Wetzell, Maj.,
220

Wienskowski, Capt. von,
89

William II, Kaiser,
9-10
,
33
,
36-8
,
99
,
191
,
217-18
,
222-5
,
303-4

William, Crown Prince of Germany,
17
,
56
,
75-6
,
153-5
,
171-2
,
214-20
,
243
,
300-1
,
321
,
328-9
,
331
; character,
222-5
,
264
; relations with Knobelsdorf,
38-40
,
220-2
,
225
,
282
,
302-3

Wilson, Woodrow,
214
,
217

Woevre, Plain of,
41
,
125
,
151

women of France,
64
,
197-8

wounded, care of, see
French Army
(medical services)

Wurtemberg, Duke of,
225

Ypres,
32

Zeppelins,
45
,
55
,
68
,
201
,
208

Zwehl, Gen. von,
38
,
58
,
77
,
82
,
84
,
86
,
95
,
153
,
157
,
215

Zweig, Arnold,
284
,
308

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¹
Of this ‘fatal doctrine of the conservation of ground’ a French general wrote after the war: ‘the humblest company, the humblest battalion in the front line had the order to retake any ground lost. Was it not essential, they said, to maintain the impetus of the soldier? This doctrine distracted our leaders from the manœuvre that consists of withdrawing a few kilometres in order to lure the enemy out of his positions, and lead him to fall disorganised under our fire and under our counter-offensives.” (Percin;
Le Massacre de Notre Infanterie
). It will be seen later with what force the above applied to the Battle of Verdun.