True Stories of the Great War, Volume 6 (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 VI (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 VI 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
The Board of Editors has selected for VOLUME VI this group of stories told by Soldiers and Army Officers direct from the battle-grounds of the Great War. It includes 165 episodes and personal adventures by forty-two story-tellers— Tommies, Boches, Poilus, Russians, Italians, Austrians, Turks, Belgians, Scotchmen, Irishmen, Canadians, Americans—the Best Stories of the War gathered from the most authentic sources, according to the plan outlined in Introductory to Volume I. Full credit is given in every instance to the original sources.
IN A PRISONERS' CAMP
Germans in a French Camp
THE U-9 SPEEDING ON THE SURFACE
From a Drawing by a German Artist Published in a German Magazine
A NARROW SHAVE!
A Remarkable Photograph of a Torpedo That Missed Its Mark by a Scant Ten Feet. The Men on This Vessel, From the Stern of Which the Picture Was Made, Literally Looked Death in the Face and Watched Him Pass By.
THE LAST ACT OF A SUDDEN SEA TRAGEDY
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TRUE STORIES OF THE GREAT WAR
CONTENTS
"BEHIND THE GERMAN VEIL" WITH VON HINDENBURG
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"KITCHENER'S MOB"—ADVENTURES OF AN AMERICAN WITH THE BRITISH ARMY
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"HOW BELGIUM SAVED EUROPE"—THE LITTLE KINGDOM OF HEROES
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THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S VISIT TO THE FRONT
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"GRAPES OF WRATH"—WITH THE "BIG PUSH" ON THE SOMME
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A NOVELIST AND SOLDIER ON THE BATTLE LINE
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STORIES OF THE WAR PHOTOGRAPHERS IN BELGIUM
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TALES OF THE FIRST BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE TO FRANCE
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IN THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY—EXPERIENCES OF A PRISONER OF WAR
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"AT SUVLA BAY"—THE WAR AGAINST THE TURKS
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SEEING THE WAR THROUGH A WOMAN'S EYES
LOST ON A SEAPLANE AND SET ADRIFT IN A MINE-FIELD
HOW I HELPED TO TAKE THE TURKISH TRENCHES AT GALLIPOLI
"BIG-BANG"—STORY OF AN AMERICAN ADVENTURER
"WITH OUR ARMY IN FLANDERS"—FIGHTING WITH TOMMY ATKINS
COMEDIES OF THE GREAT WAR
LITTLE STORIES OF THE BIG WAR
POGROM—THE TRAGEDY OF THE JEWS AND THE ARMENIANS
TALE OF THE SAVING OF PARIS
HOW IT FEELS TO A CLERGYMAN TO BE TORPEDOED ON A MAN-OF-WAR
LEON BARBESSE, SLACKER, SOLDIER, HERO
THE DESERTER—A BELGIAN INCIDENT
GRIM HUMOR OF THE TRENCHES
PRIVATE McTOSHER DISCOVERS LONDON
RUSSIAN COUNTESS IN THE ARABIAN DESERT
GERMAN STUDENTS TELL WHAT SHERMAN MEANT
BAITING THE BOCHE—THE WIT OF THE BELGIANS
HOW SERGEANT O'LEARY WON HIS VICTORIA CROSS
STORY OF A RUSSIAN IN AN AUSTRIAN PRISON
TWO WEEKS ON A SUBMARINE
A GERMAN BATTALION THAT PERISHED IN THE SNOW
THE FATAL WOOD—"NOT ONE SHALL BE SAVED"
HEROISM AND PATHOS OF THE FRONT
AN AVIATOR'S STORY OF BOMBARDING THE ENEMY
A DAY IN A GERMAN WAR PRISON
MURDER TRIAL OF CAPT. HERAIL OF FRENCH HUSSARS
HOW THEY KILLED "THE MAN WHO COULD NOT DIE"
HOW MLLE. DUCLOS WON THE LEGION OF HONOR
THE RUSSIAN "JOAN OF ARC'S" OWN STORY
AN ITALIAN SOLDIER'S LAST MESSAGE TO HIS MOTHER
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