CONTENTS
Reading edition
The Board of Editors in accordance with the plan outlined in "Introductory" for collecting the "Best Stories of the War," has selected this group of stories for VOLUME I from the most authentic sources in Europe and America. This volume includes 170 episodes and tales of adventure told by twenty-six story-tellers—Soldiers, Staff Observers, Officers, Despatch Riders, Cavalrymen, Aviators, Nurses, Prisoners, Raiders, Secret Service Men and American soldiers. Full credit is given in every instance to the original sources.
VOLUME I—TWENTY-SIX STORY-TELLERS—170 EPISODES
STORIES OF THE THREE MEN WHO CAUSED THE WORLD WAR1
"HOW I MET THE KAISER, CROWN PRINCE AND ARCHDUKE"
Told by Hall Caine
(Permission of J. B. Lippincott Company)
MY VISIT TO KING ALBERT—THE KING WHOSE THRONE IS
THE HEARTS OF HIS PEOPLE8
"I AM BOUND ON A MISSION FROM THE PRESIDENT OF FRANCE"
Told by Pierre Loti
(Permission of J. B. Lippincott Company)
"VIVE LA FRANCE"—HOW THEY DIE FOR THEIR COUNTRY23
LAST MESSAGES OF FRENCH SOLDIERS
Told by Rene Bazin
(Permission of Current History)
FOR GOD AND ITALY—BREATHING DEATH WITH THE ITALIANS29
"WHERE MINUTES ARE ETERNAL"
Told by Gabriele D'Annunzio
(Permission of London Telegraph)
THE BLOOD OF THE RUSSIANS IN FIGHT FOR LIBERTY36
"THE DESERTED BATTLEFIELDS I HAVE SEEN"
Told by Count Ilya Tolstoy
(Permission of Current History)
MY EXPERIENCES IN THE WAR HOSPITALS OF RUMANIA44
THE HORRORS OF THE LITTLE BALKAN KINGDOM
Told by Queen Marie of Rumania
(Permission of Philadelphia Public Ledger)
"WITH THE GERMAN ARMIES IN THE WEST"—VISITS TO
THE GENERAL STAFF49
Told by Sven Hedin
(Permission of John Lane Company)
"THE FIRST HUNDRED THOUSAND"—WITH KITCHENER'S
ARMY IN FRANCE73
STORIES STRAIGHT FROM THE TRENCHES
Told by Captain Ian Hay Beith
(Permission of Houghton, Mifflin and Company)
SOME EXPERIENCES IN HUNGARY97
IN THE PALACE OF PRINCE AND PRINCESS K——
Told by Mina Macdonald
(Permission of Longmans, Green and Company)
"FORCED TO FIGHT"—THE TALE OF A SCHLESWIG DANE117
"WHAT MY EYES WITNESSED IN EAST PRUSSIA"
Told by Eric Erichsen
(Permission of Robert M. McBride and Company)
"ADVENTURES OF A DESPATCH RIDER"133
AN OXFORD MAN WITH THE MOTORCYCLISTS
Told by Capt. W. H. L. Watson
(Permission of Dodd, Mead and Company)
WITH A B.-P. SCOUT IN GALLIPOLI—ON THE TURKISH FRONTIER 155
A RECORD OF THE BELTON BULLDOGS
Told by Edmund Yerbury Priestman
(Permission of E. P. Dutton and Company)
"IN THE FIELD"—THE STORIES OF THE FRENCH CHASSEURS165
IMPRESSIONS OF AN OFFICER OF LIGHT CAVALRY
Told by Lieut. Marcel Dupont
(Permission of J. B. Lippincott Company)
"FIELD HOSPITAL AND FLYING COLUMN"—IN RUSSIA181
JOURNAL OF AN ENGLISH NURSING SISTER
Told by Violetta Thurston
(Permission of G. P. Putnam's Sons)
AN UNCENSORED DIARY—FROM THE CENTRAL EMPIRES192
AT THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN COPENHAGEN
Told by Ernesta Drinker Bullitt
(Permission of Doubleday, Page and Company)
"A STUDENT IN ARMS"—IN THE RANKS WITH KITCHENER'S ARMY 209
RESURRECTION OF THE SOUL ON THE BATTLEFIELD
Told by Donald Hankey
(Permission of E. P. Dutton and Company)
"THE RED HORIZON"—STORIES OF THE LONDON IRISH217
THE MAN WITH THE ROSARY
Told by Patrick MacGill
(Permission of George H. Doran Company)
MY TRIP TO VERDUN—GENERAL PETAIN FACE TO FACE225
FROM GRAVES OF THE MARNE TO HILLS OF THE MEUSE
Told by Frank H. Simonds
(Permission of American Review of Reviews)
UNDER THE STARS AND STRIPES—WITH AMERICAN ARMY
IN FRANCE246
STORIES OF AMERICAN TROOPS ON ROAD TO FRONT
Told by Lincoln Eyre, with Pershing's Army
(Permission of New York World)
WITH THE SERBIAN STOICS IN EXILE—UNDER THE GERMAN YOKE257
EXPERIENCES IN THE FLIGHT TO ALBANIA
Told by Gordon Gordon-Smith
(Permission of New York Tribune)
TALES OF THE TANKS—WITH THE ARMORED MONSTERS IN BATTLE 274
ADVENTURES AS ROMANTIC AS MEDIAEVAL LEGENDS
Told by the Men in the Tanks
"MY ESCAPE FROM THE TURKS DISGUISED AS A WOMAN"288
THE STORY OF A WONDERFUL FEAT
Told by Private Miron D. Arber
(Permission of Wide World Magazine)
TALES OF GERMAN AIR RAIDERS OVER LONDON AND PARIS306
"HOW WE DROP BOMBS ON THE ENEMIES' CITIES"
Told by the Air Raiders Themselves
(Permission of New York American)
TALES FROM SIBERIA—WHEN THE PRISON DOORS OPENED316
JOURNEY HOME OF A HUNDRED THOUSAND EXILES
Told by (name withheld), an Eye-Witness
(Permission of New York Evening World, Los Angeles Times, and Literary Digest)
SURVIVORS' STORIES OF SINKING OF THE "LUSITANIA"325
"HOW WE SAW OUR SHIP GO DOWN—TORPEDOED BY A
GERMAN SUBMARINE"
Told by Passengers of the Ill-Fated "Lusitania"
WITH THE AMERICAN SOLDIERS ON THE FIELDS OF FRANCE340
PERSONAL EXPERIENCES DIRECT FROM THE FRONT
(Permission of New York Sun)
Photo by International News Service.
ON OBSERVATION DUTY
A Better Defense Against Enemy Eyes Than Against Bullets or Shells!
"Canadian War Records, Copyright Reserved."
A NERVE-RACKING JOB
Watching Artillery Fire From an Advance Pit in No-Man's-Land
POUNDING AT LONG RANGE
A Battery of Heavy Howitzers Doing its Part in Hammering the Enemy into Proper Condition for a Charge
© International News Service.
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A Few Minutes Later These Britishers Were in the German Trenches