Excerpt from Five Fronts: On the Firing-Lines With English-French, Austrian, German and Russian Troops But what crime? (to this day I do not know what the word means.) Murder, perhaps, said Shep. They're advertising the finish of 'war Correspondents, ' old style. Maybe the reporter is harder to kill. He is apt to care little for messing with generals, or to pose as a tactician. He knows that one comes closer to the realities of war by mingling afoot with peasantry and troopers, than when convoyed by staff Officers and allowed to see only what they permit, to learn what they want him to know. He smiles at the pretensions of War Corre spondents, who ape military dress, soldiers' ways of conduct, and collect decorations. He wonders over the hullabaloo about making dodos of them. 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.