My Year of the Great War

by Frederick Palmer

British Headquarters, France.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	Who Started It?	[1]
II	“Le Brave Belge!”	[20]
III	Mons and Paris	[29]
IV	Paris Waits	[36]
V	On the Heels of Von Kluck	[47]
VI	And Calais Waits	[73]
VII	In Germany	[82]
VIII	How the Kaiser Leads	[95]
IX	In Belgium Under the Germans	[113]
X	Christmas in Belgium	[129]
XI	The Future of Belgium	[142]
XII	Winter in Lorraine	[159]
XIII	Smiles Among Ruins	[177]
XIV	A Road of War I Know	[200]
XV	Trenches in Winter	[214]
XVI	In Neuve Chapelle	[226]
XVII	With the Irish	[246]
XVIII	With the Guns	[262]
XIX	Archibald the Archer	[284]
XX	Trenches in Summer	[290]
XXI	A School in Bombing	[310]
XXII	My Best Day at the Front	[316]
XXIII	More Best Day	[335]
XXIV	Winning and Losing	[344]
XXV	The Maple Leaf Folk	[350]
XXVI	Finding the British Fleet	[368]
XXVII	On a Destroyer	[374]
XXVIII	Ships That Have Fought	[378]
XXIX	On the “Inflexible”	[393]
XXX	On the Fleet Flagship	[400]
XXXI	Simply Hard Work	[412]
XXXII	Hunting the Submarine	[421]
XXXIII	The Fleet Puts To Sea	[425]
XXXIV	Many Pictures	[433]
XXXV	British Problems	[446]

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MY YEAR OF THE GREAT WAR

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I
WHO STARTED IT?

The ultimate arbitrament—The diplomatist’s status—The causes in the aims and ideals of the peoples—Europe’s economic relation to the rest of the world—The economic cause—“Biological necessity”—England’s position—Her complacency—The “German Wedge”—The German system—Modern efficiency methods—“A machine civil world”—The Kaiser’s mission—A German the world over—Germany’s plans and ambitions—Her war spirit—Activities in Italy—The Austrian situation—The Slav-Teuton racial hatred—France, a nation with a closed-in culture—The Kaiser’s “peace”—The Germanic “isolation.”