W. F. HALL PRINTING COMPANY, CHICAGO
Dedicated
to
My Wife
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| 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] |