{"product_id":"2940013269811","title":"THE FOREST OF SWORDS","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER                                PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   I. IN PARIS                            1\u003cbr\u003e  II. THE MESSAGE                        30\u003cbr\u003e III. IN THE FRENCH CAMP                 53\u003cbr\u003e  IV. THE INVISIBLE HAND                 76\u003cbr\u003e   V. SEEN FROM ABOVE                    99\u003cbr\u003e  VI. IN HOSTILE HANDS                  121\u003cbr\u003e VII. THE TWO PRINCES                   146\u003cbr\u003eVIII. THE SPORT OF KINGS                167\u003cbr\u003e  IX. THE PUZZLING SIGNAL               186\u003cbr\u003e   X. OLD FRIENDS                       209\u003cbr\u003e  XI. THE CONTINUING BATTLE             231\u003cbr\u003e XII. JULIE LANNES                      247\u003cbr\u003eXIII. THE MIDDLE AGES                   268\u003cbr\u003e XIV. A PROMISE KEPT                    291\u003cbr\u003e  XV. THE RESCUE                        311\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE FOREST OF SWORDS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIN PARIS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Scott and Philip Lannes walked together down a great boulevard of\u003cbr\u003eParis. The young American's heart was filled with grief and anger. The\u003cbr\u003eFrenchman felt the same grief, but mingled with it was a fierce, burning\u003cbr\u003epassion, so deep and bitter that it took a much stronger word than anger\u003cbr\u003eto describe it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth had heard that morning the mutter of cannon on the horizon, and\u003cbr\u003ethey knew the German conquerors were advancing. They were always\u003cbr\u003eadvancing. Nothing had stopped them. The metal and masonry of the\u003cbr\u003edefenses at Liège had crumbled before their huge guns like china\u003cbr\u003ebreaking under stone. The giant shells had scooped out the forts at\u003cbr\u003eMaubeuge, Maubeuge the untakable, as if they had been mere eggshells,\u003cbr\u003eand the mighty Teutonic host came on, almost without a check.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn had read of the German march on Paris, nearly a half-century\u003cbr\u003ebefore, how everything had been made complete by the genius of Bismarck\u003cbr\u003eand von Moltke, how the ready had sprung upon and crushed the unready,\u003cbr\u003ebut the present swoop of the imperial eagle seemed far more vast and\u003cbr\u003eterrible than the earlier rush could have been.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA month and the legions were already before the City of Light. Men with\u003cbr\u003eglasses could see from the top of the Eiffel Tower the gray ranks that\u003cbr\u003ewere to hem in devoted Paris once more, and the government had fled\u003cbr\u003ealready to Bordeaux. It seemed that everything was lost before the war\u003cbr\u003ewas fairly begun. The coming of the English army, far too small in\u003cbr\u003enumbers, had availed nothing. It had been swept up with the others,\u003cbr\u003eescaping from capture or destruction only by a hair, and was now driven\u003cbr\u003eback with the French on the capital.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn had witnessed two battles, and in neither had the Germans stopped\u003cbr\u003elong. Disregarding their own losses they drove forward, immense,\u003cbr\u003eoverwhelming, triumphant. He felt yet their very physical weight,\u003cbr\u003epressing upon him, crushing him, giving him no time to breathe. The\u003cbr\u003eGerman war machine was magnificent, invincible, and for the fourth time\u003cbr\u003ein a century the Germans, the exulting Kaiser at their head, might enter\u003cbr\u003eParis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Emperor himself might be nothing, mere sound and glitter, but back\u003cbr\u003eof him was the greatest army that ever trod the planet, taught for half\u003cbr\u003ea century to believe in the divine right of kings, and assured now that\u003cbr\u003emight and right were the same.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47168761102576,"sku":"2940013269811","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013269811_p0.jpg?v=1763590323","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013269811","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}