The Guns of Europe

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The Star of Gettysburg The Guns of Bull Run The Scouts of Stonewall The Guns of Shiloh The Sword of Antietam The Rock of Chickamauga (In preparation)
The Guns of Europe The Hosts of the Air The Forest of Swords
The Young Trailer The Riflemen of the Ohio The Forest Runners The Scouts of the Valley The Free Rangers The Border Watch
The Texan Star The Texan Scouts The Texan Triumph
Apache Gold A Soldier of Manhattan The Quest of the Four The Sun of Saratoga The Last of the Chiefs A Herald of the West In Circling Camps The Wilderness Road My Captive

The Guns of Europe is the first of three connected romances, of which The Forest of Swords and The Hosts of the Air are to be respectively the second and third, dealing with the world war in Europe.
It was the singular fortune of the author to be present at the beginning of this, the most gigantic struggle in the history of our globe. He was in Vienna the day Austria-Hungary declared war upon Servia, thus setting the torch that lighted the general conflagration. Returning westward, he reached Munich the day Germany declared war upon Russia. He remained in Germany nearly a month, having witnessed in turn the Austrian and German mobilizations, and then arrived in England in time to see the gathering of the British Empire's armed hosts.
He was also, upon his return, in Quebec when the greatest colony of the British was rallying to their support. Such an experience at such an extraordinary crisis makes ineffaceable impressions, and through his characters, the author has striven his best to reproduce them in these three romances.
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