CONTENTS
Reading edition
The following stories have been selected for VOLUME IV by the Board of Editors, according to the plan outlined in "Introductory" to Volume I for collecting from all sources the "Best Stories of the War." This group includes personal experiences of Soldiers at the front, Submarine Officers, Aviators, Prisoners, Ambulance Drivers, Red Cross Nurses, Priests, Spies, and American Eye-Witnesses. They have been collected from twenty-eight of the most authentic sources in Europe and America and include 134 adventures and episodes. Full credit is given in every instance to the original source.
VOLUME IV—TWENTY-EIGHT STORY-TELLERS—134 EPISODES
"WHEN THE PRUSSIANS CAME TO POLAND"—A TRAGEDY1
EXPERIENCES OF AN AMERICAN WOMAN DURING THE
GERMAN INVASION
Told by Madame Laura de Gozdawa Turczynowicz
(Permission of G. P. Putnam's Sons)
MY EXPERIENCES WITH SPIES IN THE GREAT WAR16
VISITING WITH SPIES IN AMERICA, NORWAY, SWEDEN,
DENMARK AND GERMANY
Told by Bernhart Paul Hoist
(Permission of Hoist Publishing Company, Boone, Iowa)
"THE ADVENTURE OF THE U-202"—THE KAISER'S ARMADA40
HUNTING THE SEAS ON A GERMAN SUBMARINE
Told by Baron Spiegel Von Und Zu Peckelsheim, Captain Lieutenant
Commander of the U-202
(Permission of The Century Company)
"PASSED BY THE CENSOR"—TRUE STORIES FROM THE
FIELDS OF BATTLE55
EXPERIENCES OF AN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER MAN IN
FRANCE
Told by Wythe Williams, Correspondent of the "New York
Times"
(Permission of E. P. Dutton and Company)
"PRIESTS IN THE FIRING LINE"—THE CROSS AND CRUCIFIX72
A REVEREND FATHER IN THE FRENCH ARMY
Told by Réné Gaell
(Permission of Longmans, Green and Company)
STORIES OF AN AMERICAN WOMAN—SEEN WITH HER OWN
EYES84
"JOURNAL OF SMALL THINGS"
Told by Helen Mackay
(Permission of Duffield and Company)
"PRISONER OF WAR"—SOLDIER'S TALES OF THE ARMY94
FROM THE BATTLEFIELD TO THE CAMP
Told by André Ward
(Permission of J. B. Lippincott Company)
WAR SCENES I SHALL NEVER FORGET100
Told by Carita Spencer
(Permission of Carita Spencer, of New York)
"WAR LETTERS FROM FRANCE"—THE HEARTS OF HEROES123
COLLECTED FROM THE SOLDIERS
Told by A. De Lapradelle and Frederic R. Coudert
(Permission of A. Appleton and Company)
A NURSE AT THE WAR—THE WOMAN AT THE FRONT129
AN ENGLISHWOMAN IN THE F.A.N.Y. CORPS IN FRANCE
AND BELGIUM
Told by Grace MacDougall
(Permission of Robert M. McBride and Company)
"FROM DARTMOUTH TO THE DARDANELLES"—A MIDSHIPMAN'S
LOG140
Told by a Dartmouth Student (Name Suppressed)
(Permission of E. P. Dutton and Company)
HORRORS OF TRENCH FIGHTING—WITH THE CANADIAN
HEROES148
REMARKABLE EXPERIENCES OF AN AMERICAN SOLDIER
Told by Roméo Houle
(Permission of Current History)
THE FLIGHT FROM CAPTIVITY ON "THE THIRD ATTEMPT"174
HOW I ESCAPED FROM GERMANY
Told by Corporal John Southern and set down by A. E. Littler
(Permission of Wide World, of London)
CLIMBING THE SNOW-CAPPED ALPIAN PEAKS WITH THE
ITALIANS191
"BATTLING WHERE MEN NEVER BATTLED BEFORE"
Told by Whitney Warren
(Permission of New York Sun)
AT SEA IN A TYPHOON ON A UNITED STATES ARMY TRANSPORT 203
STORY OF A VOYAGE IN THE CHINA SEA
Told by (Name Suppressed), a United States Army Officer
A BOY HERO OF THE MIDI—THE LAD FROM MONACO214
Translated from the Diary of Eugene Escloupié by Frederik Lees
(Permission of Wide World)
KNIGHTS OF THE AIR—FRENCHMEN WHO DEFY DEATH232
TALES OF VALOR IN BATTLES OF THE CLOUDS
Told by the Fliers Themselves
(Permission of Literary Digest)
FOUR AMERICAN PRISONERS ABOARD THE YARROWDALE243
ADVENTURES WITH THE GERMAN RAIDER "MOEWE"
Told by Dr. Orville E. McKim
(Permission of New York World)
HUMORS OF THE EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGN254
Told by "A. E. M. M."
(Permission of Wide World)
STORIES OF HEROIC WOMEN IN THE GREAT WAR264
TALES OF FEMININE DEEDS OF DARING
(Permission of New York American)
HOW WE STOLE THE TUG-BOAT283
THE STORY OF A SENSATIONAL ESCAPE FROM THE
GERMANS
Told by Sergeant "Maurice Prost"
(Permission of Wide World)
THE RUSSIAN SUN—ON THE TRAIL OF THE COSSACKS293
"WE ARE THE DON COSSACKS—WE DO NOT SURRENDER!"
Told by Herr Roda Roda
(Permission of New York Tribune)
A BOMBING EXPEDITION WITH THE BRITISH AIR SERVICE301
DARING ADVENTURES OF THE ROYAL FLIERS
Told by First Lieutenant J. Errol D. Boyd
(Permission of New York World)
HINDENBURG'S DEATH TRAP310
STORY FROM LIPS OF A YOUNG COSSACK
Told by Lady Glover
(Permission of Wide World)
ON THE GREAT WHITE HOSPITAL TRAIN—GOING HOME
TO DIE321
AN AMERICAN GIRL WITH A RED CROSS TRAIN
Told by Jane Anderson
(Permission of New York Tribune)
MY EXPERIENCES IN THE GREATEST NAVAL BATTLE IN
THE WAR334
WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE "BLUECHER" WENT DOWN
Told by a Survivor
(Permission of New York American)
"TODGER" JONES, V. C.342
THE MAN WHO CAPTURED A HUNDRED GERMANS
SINGLE-HANDED
Told by Himself, set down by A. E. Littler
(Permission of Wide World)
AN OFFICER'S STORY357
Retold by V. Ropshin
(Permission of Current History)
"THE GLAD HAND" An American Sailor in London Meets a Friend in the Canadian Army
THE STARS AND STRIPES PASSES THROUGH LONDON TOWN The Parade of the First American Contingent Past Cheering Multitudes of Londoners
A LONG WAY FROM THE POLO GROUNDS The Germans Complain That the English Don't Take War With Proper Seriousness: They Actually Play Football Between "Shock" Attacks. The American is Just as Bad: These Members of Admiral Sims' Destroyer Squadron Must Have Their Baseball in England as at Home.
SEEING THEMSELVES IN THE HOME PAPER American Nurses Who Have Just Found Pictures of Themselves