CONTENTS
Reading edition
This group of stories for VOLUME V has been selected by the Board of Editors according to the plan outlined in "Introductory" to Volume I. It includes episodes from thirty-one story-tellers—tales of Dragoons, Marines, Bishops, Foreign Legion, Fleet Surgeon, Scouts, Exiles, Soldiers, Spies and Eye-Witnesses. The selections have been made from the most authoritative sources in Europe and America. Full credit is given in every instance to the original source.
VOLUME V—THIRTY-ONE STORY-TELLERS—142 EPISODES
TALES OF THE DARING RIDES OF A FRENCH TROOPER1
WITH THE TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT OF DRAGOONS
Told by Lieut. Christian Mallet of the Dragoons
(Permission of E. P. Dutton and Company)
"TO RUHLEBEN—AND BACK" LIFE IN A GERMAN PRISON18
WHERE THE BRITISH CIVILIAN PRISONERS ARE HELD IN
DETENTION CAMP
Told by Geoffrey Pyke, an English Prisoner
(Permission of Houghton, Mifflin and Company)
AN AMERICAN AT BATTLE OF THE SOMME WITH FRENCH ARMY36
ARMY LIFE WITH THE SOLDIERS ALONG THE SOMME
Told by Frederick Palmer
(Permission of Dodd, Mead and Company)
AN AMERICAN'S EXPERIENCES "INSIDE THE GERMAN EMPIRE"53
Told by Herbert Bayard Swope
(Permission of The Century Company)
"DIXMUDE"—AN EPIC OF THE FRENCH MARINES64
STORY OF THE MURDER OF COMMANDER JEANNIOT
Told by Charles Le Goffic of the Fusiliers Marins
(Permission of J. B. Lippincott Company)
A BISHOP AT THE FRONT WITH THE BRITISH ARMY75
Told by Right Reverend H. Russell Wakefield, Bishop of Birmingham
(Permission of Longmans, Green and Company)
SHORT RATIONS—THE TRUTH ABOUT LIFE IN GERMANY83
AN AMERICAN WOMAN IN GERMANY
Told by Madeline Zabriskie Doty
(Permission of The Century Company)
FIGHTING "WITH THE RUSSIAN ARMY"—ON THE AUSTRIAN FRONT92
THE COLOSSAL STRUGGLE OF THE SLAVS
Told by Barnard Pares
(Permission of Houghton, Mifflin and Company)
THE ROMANCE OF THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION107
THE "GLORIOUS RASCALS"
Told by E. S. and G. F. Lees
(Permission of Wide World)
ADVENTURES OF WOMEN WHO FACE DEATH ON BATTLEGROUNDS121
LITTLE STORIES OF WOMAN'S INDOMITABLE COURAGE
Told by Hilda Wynne and Others
(Permission of New York American and New York World)
AN AMERICAN WOMAN'S STORY OF THE "ANCONA" TRAGEDY142
Told by Dr. Cecile Greil
(Permission New York Times)
THE STRATEGY OF SISTER MADELEINE151
THE STORY OF A FRENCH CAPTAIN'S ESCAPE FROM THE GERMANS
Told by Himself and Translated by G. Frederic Lees
(Permission of Wide World)
TALES OF THE SPIES AND THEIR DANGEROUS MISSIONS169
REVELATIONS OF METHODS AND DARING ADVENTURES
Told by Secret Service Men of Several Countries
(Permission of New York American; New York World; New
York Herald and New York Tribune)
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE "GLENHOLME"192
ADVENTURES WITH SUBMARINES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
Told by Captain Groome to a Friend
(Permission Wide World)
WHAT THE KAISER'S SON SAW ON THE BATTLEFIELD203
PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF A GERMAN PRINCE
Told by Prince Oscar of Prussia, Fifth Son of Emperor Wilhelm
(Permission of New York American)
A DAY'S WORK WITH A FRENCH SUBMARINE222
AN AMERICAN'S EXPERIENCE UNDER THE SEA
Told by Fred B. Pitney
(Permission of New York Tribune)
TALE OF THE CHILD OF TERBEEKE233
HOW IT SAVED A BRITISH BATTALION
Told by Oliver Madox Hueffer
(Permission of Wide World)
A HERO TALE OF THE RED CROSS242
Told by G. S. Petroff
(Permission of Current History)
LIFE STORY OF "GRANDMOTHER OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION"246
TRIUMPHANT RETURN FROM FORTY-FOUR YEARS IN
SIBERIAN EXILE
Told by Catherine Breshkovskaya, the Russian Revolutionist
(Permission of New York Tribune)
TALE OF AN AMAZING VOYAGE262
GERMAN OFFICERS ESCAPE FROM SPAIN IN A SAILING VESSEL
Told by Frederic Lees
(Permission of Wide World)
THE POET'S DEATH IN BATTLE—HOW ALLEN SEEGER DIED278
A YOUNG AMERICAN IN THE FOREIGN LEGION
Told by Bif Bear, a Young Egyptian in the Foreign Legion
THE GUARDIAN OF THE LINE—HERO TALE OF LITHUANIA286
Told by G. Frederic Lees
(Permission of Wide World)
WITH A FLEET SURGEON ON A BRITISH WARSHIP DURING A BATTLE 295
UNDER FIRE ON HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP, "THE FEARLESS"
Told by Fleet Surgeon Walter K. Hopkins
(Permission New York American)
AIRMEN IN THE DESERTS OF EGYPT304
ADVENTURES OF THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS IN SINAI
Told by F. W. Martindale
(Permission of Wide World)
HOW SWEENY, OF THE FOREIGN LEGION, GOT HIS "HOT DOGS"312
Told by Private John Joseph Casey
(Permission of New York World)
THE DOGS OF WAR ON THE BATTLEGROUNDS316
THE "FOUR-FOOTED SOLDIERS" OF FRANCE
Told by the Soldiers
(Permission of Wide World)
TRUE STORY ABOUT KILLING THE WOUNDED328
Told by A. Pankratoff
(Permission of Current History)
HOW WE FOILED "U 39"—IN THE SUBMARINE ZONE333
ADVENTURES ABOARD A HORSE TRANSPORT
Told by H. O. Read
(Permission of Wide World)
MY WORST EXPERIENCE IN MESOPOTAMIA344
Told by a Man Who Stopped a Bullet
(Permission of Current History)
SPIRIT OF YOUNG AMERICA—HOW WE WENT "OVER THE TOP"349
EXPERIENCES OF A NEW YORK BOY WITH THE CANADIANS
Told by (name withheld), wounded in France
THE SINKING OF "THE PROVENCE II"358
Told by N. Bokanowski, Deputy of the Department of the Seine
© International Film Service.
THE BALLOON CORPS EXPERIENCE THE SENSATIONS OF THE POLAR EXPLORER
DROPPING A BOMB FROM A DIRIGIBLE
It is Pleasanter to See This in a Volume Than Overhead!
A FEW MINUTES BEFORE THIS WAS A GERMAN BATTLE PLANE
But the Aircraft Guns Got His Range. The Insert Shows a Naval Plane
© International Film Service.
SOMEONE IS ALWAYS WATCHING IN THE FIRST LINE TRENCH
A British Trench at Orvillieres