2-710-970 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'All That Remains of Sermaize', (1919). Scene from the First World War, 1914-1919: 'The towns and villages along the valley of the Marne [in northern France] eclipse even the devastation wrought in Belgium by the Germans. Nothing but a few gaunt stumps of masonry or the track of the principal street was left to show where once stood some flourishing and prosperous town.' From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. III, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]