2-710-980 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'General Mangan', (1919). Portrait of French soldier Charles Emmanuel Marie Mangin (1866-1925): 'The heroic defender of Verdun.' During the First World War, Mangin rose from divisional command to that of the 10th Army. During the Second Battle of the Marne he was in command of both French and American troops. From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. VI, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]