ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
Where Boyhood Guards FranceFrontispiece
FACING PAGE
"Please, Colonel, Can't I Join?"12
A Belgian Boy Hero26
Smoke, the Herald of Death 38
Armored Train Defending Antwerp50
Armored Car Harassing Invaders50
The First Clash64
Taking Soup to the Firing-Line76
The Modern Ogre of the Forest88
The Charge Irresistible100
A Mammoth German War Car118
French Cavalry on Patrol136
Royal Boy Warriors146
Liquid Fire Projected from the German Trenches 156
Liquid Fire Projected from Portable Reservoirs 156
Boy Heroes of the Front168
"Our Enemies Showed Great Gallantry"180
French Infantry Advancing200
German Infantry Advancing200
"They Do Not Pass!"210
"The Veteran's Advice"210
"We've Got Them Licked, Boys!"222
The War of Fire232
Saved in a Hail of Shell242
Attack on a Stranded Tank256
The Men Whom No Danger Can Daunt272
The Endless Line of Motor Convoys294
The Valley of the Dead304
Listening-Patrol Trapped by a Star-Shell314
Locating Enemy Sappers on a Listening-Patrol314
French Tank Cutting Wire322
Machine-Gun Dog-Team in Belgium338
Each Kennel Inhabited by One Wise, Silent Dog338
Message Dog Wearing Gas Mask342
The Zouave Bugler's Last Call348
When Hooded Demons Take the Trenches 356
The Approach of Doom362
Bringing up Food for the Firing-Line through a Poison Gas Cloud368
The Battle of Demon Faces. Flinging Bombs in a Mist of Green Death368