W. F. HALL PRINTING COMPANY, CHICAGO


Dedicated
to
My Wife


CONTENTS


CHAPTERPAGE
I A Former Pacifist[1]
II Red Tape in Traveling[9]
III How I Got into the Service[15]
IV A Unit in Its Infancy[20]
V The Northwest Front—Mud![25]
VI A Weird Night[30]
VII The Red Cross[36]
VIII When France Was First "Gassed"[42]
IX When Jacques "Went West"[47]
X "Trench Nightmare"[51]
XI Calm Before a Storm[56]
XII If an Ambulance Could Speak[60]
XIII A Ticklish Attack[64]
XIV The Death of a Comrade[67]
XV On an Old Battle Ground[74]
XVI The Verdun Attack—Life and Death[79]
XVII Barrage, or Curtain Fire[93]
XVIII The Ragpicker[106]
XIX Camouflage[112]
XX The Heroism of the Wounded[116]
XXI The Treacherous "German Souvenir"[123]
XXII The Nigger's Nose[128]
XXIII Getting By the Consuls[132]
XXIV A Close Shave[145]
XXV Meeting Brand Whitlock[148]
XXVI My Maps of Belgium[151]
XXVII The "Cat and Mouse" Game[156]
XXVIII Shadowed at Liége[159]
XXIX Results of "Frightfulness"[163]
XXX My Mental Processes[168]
XXXI A Night in Louvain[174]
XXXII Ruin and Death[178]
XXXIII In the Palace of the King[187]
XXXIV The Kaiser's Envy[190]
XXXV Caught by the Huns and Tried as a Spy[196]
XXXVI Threatened with Crucifixion[204]
XXXVII My Escape and Return to Good Old France[210]
XXXVIII No Man's Land[215]
XXXIX Jean and "Frenchie"[223]
XL The Psychology of France[228]
XLI The Contagious Spirit of Sacrifice[233]
XLI The Heritage of Hate[238]
XLII "Back From Hell"[243]

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