Paths of Glory

A French cavalry officer’s blue coat hangs from a tree beside a dead campfire; beyond it, a Belgian village has been blasted into broken roofs and jagged rails.

In the opening months of World War I, Irvin S. Cobb and four other Americans follow the German rear guard through Belgium, guided by distant cannon fire and whatever traces the fighting leaves behind. At Montignies St. Christophe, a hamlet of barely twenty houses, shells have torn up the road and opened homes to the sky; the villagers are gone. Cobb writes as a witness, alert to the details that turn a quiet country road into a record of fear and upheaval. What will the next stretch of road reveal about the people caught between the armies?

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