The Latin at War Author:Will Irwin General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1917 Original Publisher: D. Appleton Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 History / General History / Military / World War I Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Bo... more »oks edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III THE HOUSE AT ZAGORA The foothills of the Alps would be called a little more than foothills in the Rocky Mountains, but real mountains in Scotland or our Atlantic States. As we strode on, trotting at intervals to keep pace with the long, mountain-trained legs of our Lieutenant, they began to come one by one out of the dawn. In conformation, it occurred to me, they much resembled the American Catskills or perhaps the mountains of Scotland, only that they were more abrupt. The day broke in beauty -- clear skies, April and the Alps. It is not my purpose, however, to write here of scenery. And indeed, during the last part of our passage to the point where the communication trenches opened, I was indifferent to beauty. When you go down a path at a stooping run, dodging from side to side in order to dazzle a sniper, it is hard to remember that you are dodging through incomparable forest. This is why we had come: The Isonzo, near by, runs into a gorge. On bothsides rise mountains with occasional cliffs. The Italians, advancing here as elsewhere toward the River of Promise, had swept the Austrians down the slope of the right bank and across the Isonzo. In face of deadly fire, they had themselves crossed. They had struggled on until they forced the enemy up near to the summit on the left bank. At the hamlet of Zagora the lines locked, and affairs came to a standstill. And in Zagora stood the strangest house in all Europe, where the two armies " had contact." This situation had exi...« less