True Stories of the Great War, Volume 5 (of 6) / Tales of Adventure--Heroic Deeds--Exploits Told by the Soldiers, Officers, Nurses, Diplomats, Eye Witnesses
The Project Gutenberg eBook, True Stories of the Great War, Volume V (of 6), by Various, Edited by Francis Trevelyan Miller
TRUE STORIES OF THE GREAT WAR
TALES OF ADVENTURE—HEROIC DEEDS—EXPLOITS TOLD BY THE SOLDIERS, OFFICERS, NURSES, DIPLOMATS, EYE WITNESSES Collected in Six Volumes From Official and Authoritative Sources ( See Introductory to Volume I ) VOLUME V Editor-in-Chief FRANCIS TREVELYAN MILLER (Litt. D., LL.D.) Editor of The Search-Light Library 1917 REVIEW OF REVIEWS COMPANY NEW YORK
Copyright, 1917, by REVIEW OF REVIEWS COMPANY
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
© 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
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CONTENTS
TALES OF THE DARING RIDES OF A FRENCH TROOPER
FOOTNOTE
"TO RUHLEBEN—AND BACK"—LIFE IN A GERMAN PRISON
FOOTNOTES
AN AMERICAN AT BATTLE OF THE SOMME WITH FRENCH ARMY
FOOTNOTE
AN AMERICAN'S EXPERIENCES "INSIDE THE GERMAN EMPIRE"
FOOTNOTE
"DIXMUDE"-AN EPIC OF THE FRENCH MARINES
FOOTNOTE
A BISHOP AT THE FRONT WITH THE BRITISH ARMY
FOOTNOTE
SHORT RATIONS—THE TRUTH ABOUT LIFE IN GERMANY
FOOTNOTE
FIGHTING "WITH THE RUSSIAN ARMY"—ON AUSTRIAN FRONT
FOOTNOTE
THE ROMANCE OF THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION
ADVENTURES OF WOMEN WHO FACE DEATH ON BATTLEGROUNDS
AN AMERICAN WOMAN'S STORY OF THE "ANCONA" TRAGEDY
THE STRATEGY OF SISTER MADELEINE
TALES OF THE SPIES AND THEIR DANGEROUS MISSIONS
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE "GLENHOLME"
WHAT THE KAISER'S SON SAW ON THE BATTLEFIELD
A DAY'S WORK WITH A FRENCH SUBMARINE
TALE OF THE CHILD OF TERBEEKE
A HERO TALE OF THE RED CROSS
LIFE STORY OF "GRANDMOTHER OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION"
TALE OF AN AMAZING VOYAGE
THE POET'S DEATH IN BATTLE—HOW ALLEN SEEGER DIED
THE GUARDIAN OF THE LINE—HERO TALE OF LITHUANIA
WITH A FLEET SURGEON ON A BRITISH WARSHIP DURING A BATTLE
AIRMEN IN THE DESERTS OF EGYPT
HOW SWEENY, OF THE FOREIGN LEGION, GOT HIS "HOT DOGS"
THE DOGS OF WAR ON THE BATTLEGROUNDS
TRUE STORY ABOUT KILLING THE WOUNDED
HOW WE FOILED "U 39" IN THE SUBMARINE ZONE
MY WORST EXPERIENCE IN MESOPOTAMIA
SPIRIT OF YOUNG AMERICA—HOW WE WENT "OVER THE TOP"
THE SINKING OF THE "PROVENCE II"
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