CONTENTS
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.
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 TRAGEDY1EXPERIENCES OF AN AMERICAN WOMAN DURING THEGERMAN INVASIONTold by Madame Laura de Gozdawa Turczynowicz(Permission of G. P. Putnam's Sons)MY EXPERIENCES WITH SPIES IN THE GREAT WAR16VISITING WITH SPIES IN AMERICA, NORWAY, SWEDEN,DENMARK AND GERMANYTold by Bernhart Paul Hoist(Permission of Hoist Publishing Company, Boone, Iowa)"THE ADVENTURE OF THE U-202"—THE KAISER'S ARMADA40HUNTING THE SEAS ON A GERMAN SUBMARINETold by Baron Spiegel Von Und Zu Peckelsheim, Captain LieutenantCommander of the U-202(Permission of The Century Company)"PASSED BY THE CENSOR"—TRUE STORIES FROM THEFIELDS OF BATTLE55EXPERIENCES OF AN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER MAN INFRANCETold by Wythe Williams, Correspondent of the "New YorkTimes"(Permission of E. P. Dutton and Company)"PRIESTS IN THE FIRING LINE"—THE CROSS AND CRUCIFIX72A REVEREND FATHER IN THE FRENCH ARMYTold by Réné Gaell(Permission of Longmans, Green and Company)STORIES OF AN AMERICAN WOMAN—SEEN WITH HER OWNEYES84"JOURNAL OF SMALL THINGS"Told by Helen Mackay(Permission of Duffield and Company)"PRISONER OF WAR"—SOLDIER'S TALES OF THE ARMY94FROM THE BATTLEFIELD TO THE CAMPTold by André Ward(Permission of J. B. Lippincott Company)WAR SCENES I SHALL NEVER FORGET100Told by Carita Spencer(Permission of Carita Spencer, of New York)"WAR LETTERS FROM FRANCE"—THE HEARTS OF HEROES123COLLECTED FROM THE SOLDIERSTold by A. De Lapradelle and Frederic R. Coudert(Permission of A. Appleton and Company)A NURSE AT THE WAR—THE WOMAN AT THE FRONT129AN ENGLISHWOMAN IN THE F.A.N.Y. CORPS IN FRANCEAND BELGIUMTold by Grace MacDougall(Permission of Robert M. McBride and Company)"FROM DARTMOUTH TO THE DARDANELLES"—A MIDSHIPMAN'SLOG140Told by a Dartmouth Student (Name Suppressed)(Permission of E. P. Dutton and Company)HORRORS OF TRENCH FIGHTING—WITH THE CANADIANHEROES148REMARKABLE EXPERIENCES OF AN AMERICAN SOLDIERTold by Roméo Houle(Permission of Current History)THE FLIGHT FROM CAPTIVITY ON "THE THIRD ATTEMPT"174HOW I ESCAPED FROM GERMANYTold by Corporal John Southern and set down by A. E. Littler(Permission of Wide World, of London)CLIMBING THE SNOW-CAPPED ALPIAN PEAKS WITH THEITALIANS191"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 TRANSPORT203STORY OF A VOYAGE IN THE CHINA SEATold by (Name Suppressed), a United States Army OfficerA BOY HERO OF THE MIDI—THE LAD FROM MONACO214Translated from the Diary of Eugene Escloupié by Frederik Lees(Permission of Wide World)KNIGHTS OF THE AIR—FRENCHMEN WHO DEFY DEATH232TALES OF VALOR IN BATTLES OF THE CLOUDSTold by the Fliers Themselves(Permission of Literary Digest)FOUR AMERICAN PRISONERS ABOARD THE YARROWDALE243ADVENTURES WITH THE GERMAN RAIDER "MOEWE"Told by Dr. Orville E. McKim(Permission of New York World)HUMORS OF THE EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGN254Told by "A. E. M. M."(Permission of Wide World)STORIES OF HEROIC WOMEN IN THE GREAT WAR264TALES OF FEMININE DEEDS OF DARING(Permission of New York American)HOW WE STOLE THE TUG-BOAT283THE STORY OF A SENSATIONAL ESCAPE FROM THEGERMANSTold 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 SERVICE301DARING ADVENTURES OF THE ROYAL FLIERSTold by First Lieutenant J. Errol D. Boyd(Permission of New York World)HINDENBURG'S DEATH TRAP310STORY FROM LIPS OF A YOUNG COSSACKTold by Lady Glover(Permission of Wide World)ON THE GREAT WHITE HOSPITAL TRAIN—GOING HOMETO DIE321AN AMERICAN GIRL WITH A RED CROSS TRAINTold by Jane Anderson(Permission of New York Tribune)MY EXPERIENCES IN THE GREATEST NAVAL BATTLE INTHE WAR334WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE "BLUECHER" WENT DOWNTold by a Survivor(Permission of New York American)"TODGER" JONES, V. C.342THE MAN WHO CAPTURED A HUNDRED GERMANSSINGLE-HANDEDTold by Himself, set down by A. E. Littler(Permission of Wide World)AN OFFICER'S STORY357Retold by V. Ropshin(Permission of Current History)
"THE GLAD HAND"An American Sailor in London Meets a Friend in the Canadian Army
"THE GLAD HAND"An American Sailor in London Meets a Friend in the Canadian Army
"THE GLAD HAND"An American Sailor in London Meets a Friend in the Canadian Army
THE STARS AND STRIPES PASSES THROUGH LONDON TOWNThe Parade of the First American Contingent Past Cheering Multitudes of Londoners
THE STARS AND STRIPES PASSES THROUGH LONDON TOWNThe Parade of the First American Contingent Past Cheering Multitudes of Londoners
THE STARS AND STRIPES PASSES THROUGH LONDON TOWNThe Parade of the First American Contingent Past Cheering Multitudes of Londoners
A LONG WAY FROM THE POLO GROUNDSThe 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.
A LONG WAY FROM THE POLO GROUNDSThe 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.
A LONG WAY FROM THE POLO GROUNDSThe 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 PAPERAmerican Nurses Who Have Just Found Pictures of Themselves
SEEING THEMSELVES IN THE HOME PAPERAmerican Nurses Who Have Just Found Pictures of Themselves
SEEING THEMSELVES IN THE HOME PAPERAmerican Nurses Who Have Just Found Pictures of Themselves