"Yes, you know, all this," and he made an expansive gesture, "Verdun, and Joffre, and 'they shall not pass,' and Napoleon's tomb, and war bread, and all the men with medals and everything. Great stuff! There'll never be anything like it in the world again. I tell you it's better than 'Ivanhoe.' Everything's happening and I'm in it. I'm in a little of it, anyway. And if I have a chance to get in something big I don't care what happens. No, sir, if I could just help to give the old Boche a good wallop I wouldn't care if I never got back. Why, I wouldn't miss this for ——" His eyes were sparkling with excitement now and he was straining for adequate expression. He brought his fist down on the table until the glasses rattled. "I wouldn't miss this for $50,000 cash," he said.
True Stories of the War
MEN, WOMEN AND WAR
BY WILL IRWIN, author of "The Latin at War."
With the inquisitiveness of the reporter and the pen of an artist in words the author has in this book given us the human side of an inhuman war. He saw and understood the implacable German war machine; the Belgian fighting for his homeland; the regenerated French defending their country against the invader, and the imperturbable English, determined to maintain their honor even if the empire was threatened.
"The splendid story of Ypres is the fullest outline of that battle that the present reviewer has seen. Mr. Irwin's book is all the better for not having been long. It has no dull pages."—The New York Times.
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THE LATIN AT WAR