CAPTAIN F. S. BRERETON

Author of "The Armoured-car Scouts"
"From the Nile to the Tigris"
"Under Haig in Flanders"
&c. &c.

Illustrated by Wal Paget

BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED
LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY


Contents


Chap.Page
I. An American Declaration[9]
II. The Sheriff's Posse[21]
III. In the Mine Shafts[37]
IV. "En Route" for Europe[53]
V. A German Agent[68]
VI. Bombed in Mid-ocean[81]
VII. Aboard a U-boat[95]
VIII. Capture of the Trawler[109]
IX. A Hard Fight[124]
X. The European Conflict[137]
XI. On Convoy Duty[150]
XII. Germany's Greatest Effort[162]
XIII. Surrounded[176]
XIV. Where Men fought for Empire[191]
XV. Attacked from All Sides[206]
XVI. Heinrich Hilker, Master Spy[221]
XVII. An American Encampment[236]
XVIII. In Search of Liberty[251]
XIX. Plots within Plots[262]
XX. A Turn in the Tide[275]