CONTENTS
Reading edition
This collection of stories for VOLUME II has been selected by the Board of Editors, according to the plan outlined in "Introductory" to Volume I for preserving the "Best Stories of the War" from the most authentic sources in Europe and America. These pages record 144 personal adventures and episodes told by twenty-four Diplomatists, Attachées, Aviators, Naval Officers, French Mothers, German Spies, Soldiers and Eye-Witnesses. Full credit is given in every instance to the original source.
VOLUME II—TWENTY-FOUR STORY-TELLERS—144 EPISODES
"BEHIND THE SCENES IN WARRING GERMANY"1
Told by Edward Lyell Fox
(Permission of Robert M. McBride and Company)
THE "EMDEN"—AN EPIC OF THE GREAT WAR24
EXPERIENCES ABOARD A GALLANT LITTLE FIGHTING SHIP
Told by Kapitanleutnant Hellmuth Von Mücke
(Permission of Ritter and Company)
"THE WAY OF THE CROSS"—A TRAGEDY OF THE RUSSIANS45
THE MILLIONS WHO HAVE BECOME BEGGARS
Told by V. Doroshevitch
(Permission of G. P. Putnam's Sons)
THE NOTEBOOK OF AN ATTACHÉ IN THE EMBASSY AT PARIS61
A DISPATCH-BEARER IN THE AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC
SERVICE
Told by Eric Fisher Wood
(Permission of The Century Company)
'NEATH VERDUN—BEHIND THE CROWN PRINCE'S ARMY79
Told by Lieutenant Maurice Genevoix
(Permission of Frederick A. Stokes Company)
ON THE ANZAC TRAIL—WITH THE FIGHTING AUSTRALASIANS101
ADVENTURES OF A NEW ZEALAND SAPPER
Told by "Anzac" (Name Suppressed)
(Permission of J. B. Lippincott Company)
WITH BOTHA'S ARMY IN GERMAN SOUTHWEST AFRICA121
ON THE ROAD TO CAPETOWN
Told by J. P. Kay Robinson
(Permission of E. P. Dutton and Company)
LAST WORDS OF A "SOLDIER AND DRAMATIST"140
LETTERS OF HAROLD CHAPIN
(Permission of John Lane Company)
THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE—PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF AN
AMERICAN WAR CORRESPONDENT158
Told by Stanley Washburn
(Permission of Doubleday, Page and Company)
A FRENCH MOTHER IN WAR TIME170
BEING THE JOURNAL OF MADAME EDOUARD DRUMONT
Translated by Grace E. Bevir
(Permission of Longmans, Green and Company)
"THE FALL OF TSINGTAU"—THE WAR IN THE FAR EAST186
WITH THE JAPANESE IN THE ORIENT
Told by Jefferson Jones
(Permission of Houghton, Mifflin and Company)
WITH MY REGIMENT—BRITONS ON THE FIELD OF HONOR195
FIGHTING FROM THE AISNE TO LA BASSEE
Told by a "Platoon Commander"
(Permission of J. B. Lippincott Company)
THE STORY OF COUNT SEILERN204
A TRAGEDY OF THE HAPSBURGS
(Permission of Wide World)
TURNING HEAVENS INTO HELL—EXPLOITS OF CANADIAN
FLYING CORPS228
BATTLE IN AIR WITH ONE HUNDRED AEROPLANES
Told by Officer of Royal Canadian Flying Corps
(Permission of New York Herald)
"THE LEGION OF DEATH"—WOMEN SOLDIERS ON THE FIRING-LINE 235
HOW THE RUSSIAN, SERBIAN, AND GERMAN WOMEN GO TO WAR
Told by Officers and Eye-Witnesses from the Battlefields
THE TALE OF THE "TARA" OFF THE AFRICAN COAST253
RESCUED BY "TANKS IN THE DESERT"
Told by Survivors, set down by Lewis R. Freeman
(Permission of Wide World)
THE WHITE SILENCE—WINTER IN THE CARPATHIANS274
IN THE SNOW-CLAD MOUNTAINS WITH THE AUSTRIANS
Told by Ludwig Bauer
(Permission of New Yorker Staats-Zeitung and New York
Tribune)
"MY TEN YEARS OF INTRIGUE IN THE KAISER'S SECRET SERVICE"282
THE PLOT TO DYNAMITE THE WELLAND CANAL
Told by Horst Von Der Goltz
(Permission of Robert M. McBride and Company and New
York World)
REAL-LIFE ROMANCES OF THE WAR298
Told by Malcolm Savage Treacher
(Permission of Wide World)
THE IRISHMEN OF THE FIGHTING TENTH AT MACEDONIA326
Told by One of the Fighting Irishmen
(Permission of London Weekly Despatch)
THE ARTIFICIAL VOLCANO334
AN INCIDENT OF THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN IN THE DOLOMITES
Told by Capitano Z——, of the Royal Italian Engineers
(Permission of Wide World)
LAST HOURS OF EDITH CAVELL ON NIGHT OF EXECUTION342
EXPERIENCE OF AMERICAN DIPLOMAT IN EFFORT TO
SAVE LIFE OF ENGLISH NURSE
Told by Hugh Gibson
(Permission of World's Work)
A BAYONET CHARGE IN PICARDY353
Told by a British Army Captain
(Permission of Current History)
THE SLAUGHTER AT DOUAUMONT359
Told by a French Soldier
British Official Photo, by International Film Service. BASEBALL PLAYERS AND CRICKETERS MAKE GOOD GRENADE THROWERS Position No. 1 in Bombing
THE HELL OF "LIQUID FIRE" WHICH HAS BECOME A REGULAR PART OF WAR