_This deals with the battle of Verdun. The author took part in the
first days of the battle on the right bank and the left bank of the
Meuse. He spent, likewise, almost all the month of March at the Verdun
front._
_On June 7, 1916, Sub-Lieutenant Capart became attached to the General
Staff of General Pétain, but often he continued to fight and work with
the poilus and also with his old comrades._