Download or read book Broken Shackles (Classic Reprint) written by John Oxenham and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Broken Shackles In the private room of the Chief of the Staff at Besancon - a big bare room furnished with nothing but the plainest of tables and chairs and a stove and a large idea - two men leaned absorbedly over a map fixed to the table by drawing-pins. It was studded here and there with longer pins, some with heads made of red sealing-wax and some of black. The black-headed pins clustered thickly in places all over the upper part of the map. In point of numbers the red pins compared unfavourably with them. Moreover, the red pins were wide apart and isolated, and in most cases ringed round, wholly or in part, by a bristling hedge of black pins whose heads seemed to twinkle viciously in the lamplight. "You see the idea, de Valle?" asked the elder of the two men as he straightened up, the insistent forefinger of his right hand still glued to the map, his other hand on his hip to ease the irk of much stooping. 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."