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قراءة كتاب True Stories of The Great War Volume 2 (of 6) Tales of Adventure-Heroic Deeds-Exploits told by the Soldiers, Officers, Nurses, Diplomats, Eye Witnesses

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True Stories of The Great War Volume 2 (of 6)
Tales of Adventure-Heroic Deeds-Exploits told by the
Soldiers, Officers, Nurses, Diplomats, Eye Witnesses

True Stories of The Great War Volume 2 (of 6) Tales of Adventure-Heroic Deeds-Exploits told by the Soldiers, Officers, Nurses, Diplomats, Eye Witnesses

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TRUE STORIES
OF THE
GREAT WAR

TALES OF ADVENTURE—HEROIC DEEDS—EXPLOITS
TOLD BY THE SOLDIERS, OFFICERS, NURSES,
DIPLOMATS, EYE WITNESSES


Collected in Six Volumes
From Official and Authoritative Sources

(See Introductory to Volume I)


VOLUME II


Editor-in-Chief
FRANCIS TREVELYAN MILLER (Litt. D., LL.D.)
Editor of The Search-Light Library


1917
REVIEW OF REVIEWS COMPANY
NEW YORK


Copyright, 1917, by
REVIEW OF REVIEWS COMPANY

CONTENTS

This collection of stories for VOLUME II has been selected by the Board of Editors, according to the plan outlined in "Introductory" to Volume I for preserving the "Best Stories of the War" from the most authentic sources in Europe and America. These pages record 144 personal adventures and episodes told by twenty-four Diplomatists, Attachées, Aviators, Naval Officers, French Mothers, German Spies, Soldiers and Eye-Witnesses. Full credit is given in every instance to the original source.

VOLUME II—TWENTY-FOUR STORY-TELLERS—144 EPISODES

"BEHIND THE SCENES IN WARRING GERMANY" 1
Told by Edward Lyell Fox
(Permission of Robert M. McBride and Company)
 
THE "EMDEN"—AN EPIC OF THE GREAT WAR 24
EXPERIENCES ABOARD A GALLANT LITTLE FIGHTING SHIP
Told by Kapitanleutnant Hellmuth Von Mücke
(Permission of Ritter and Company)
 
"THE WAY OF THE CROSS"—A TRAGEDY OF THE RUSSIANS 45
THE MILLIONS WHO HAVE BECOME BEGGARS
Told by V. Doroshevitch
(Permission of G. P. Putnam's Sons)
 
THE NOTEBOOK OF AN ATTACHÉ IN THE EMBASSY AT PARIS 61
A DISPATCH-BEARER IN THE AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC
SERVICE
Told by Eric Fisher Wood
(Permission of The Century Company)
 
'NEATH VERDUN—BEHIND THE CROWN PRINCE'S ARMY 79
Told by Lieutenant Maurice Genevoix
(Permission of Frederick A. Stokes Company)
 
ON THE ANZAC TRAIL—WITH THE FIGHTING AUSTRALASIANS 101
ADVENTURES OF A NEW ZEALAND SAPPER
Told by "Anzac" (Name Suppressed)
(Permission of J. B. Lippincott Company)
 
WITH BOTHA'S ARMY IN GERMAN SOUTHWEST AFRICA 121
ON THE ROAD TO CAPETOWN
Told by J. P. Kay Robinson
(Permission of E. P. Dutton and Company)
 
LAST WORDS OF A "SOLDIER AND DRAMATIST" 140
LETTERS OF HAROLD CHAPIN
(Permission of John Lane Company)
THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE—PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF AN
AMERICAN WAR CORRESPONDENT 158
Told by Stanley Washburn
(Permission of Doubleday, Page and Company)
 
A FRENCH MOTHER IN WAR TIME 170
BEING THE JOURNAL OF MADAME EDOUARD DRUMONT
Translated by Grace E. Bevir
(Permission of Longmans, Green and Company)
 
"THE FALL OF TSINGTAU"—THE WAR IN THE FAR EAST 186
WITH THE JAPANESE IN THE ORIENT
Told by Jefferson Jones
(Permission of Houghton, Mifflin and Company)
 
WITH MY REGIMENT—BRITONS ON THE FIELD OF HONOR 195
FIGHTING FROM THE AISNE TO LA BASSEE
Told by a "Platoon Commander"
(Permission of J. B. Lippincott Company)
 
THE STORY OF COUNT SEILERN 204
A TRAGEDY OF THE HAPSBURGS
(Permission of Wide World)
TURNING HEAVENS INTO HELL—EXPLOITS OF CANADIAN
 
FLYING CORPS 228
BATTLE IN AIR WITH ONE HUNDRED AEROPLANES
Told by Officer of Royal Canadian Flying Corps
(Permission of New York Herald)
 
"THE LEGION OF DEATH"—WOMEN SOLDIERS ON THE FIRING-LINE  

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