Publisher's Synopsis
TALES OF ADVENTURE-HEROIC DEEDS-EXPLOITS TOLD BY THE SOLDIERS, OFFICERS, NURSES, DIPLOMATS, EYE WITNESSES 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. "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 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 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 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 Told by Lieutenant Maurice Genevoix (Permission of Frederick A. Stokes Company) ON THE ANZAC TRAIL-WITH THE FIGHTING AUSTRALASIANS ADVENTURES OF A NEW ZEALAND SAPPER Told by "Anzac" (Name Suppressed) WITH BOTHA'S ARMY IN GERMAN SOUTHWEST AFRICA 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" LETTERS OF HAROLD CHAPIN (Permission of John Lane Company) THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE-PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF AN AMERICAN WAR CORRESPONDENT Told by Stanley Washburn (Permission of Doubleday, Page and Company) A FRENCH MOTHER IN WAR TIME 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 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 FIGHTING FROM THE AISNE TO LA BASSEE Told by a "Platoon Commander" (Permission of J. B. Lippincott Company) THE STORY OF COUNT SEILERN A TRAGEDY OF THE HAPSBURGS (Permission of Wide World) TURNING HEAVENS INTO HELL-EXPLOITS OF CANADIAN FLYING CORPS 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 HOW THE RUSSIAN, SERBIAN, AND GERMAN WOMEN GO TO WAR Told by Officers and Eye-Witnesses from the Battlefields THE TALE OF THE "TARA" OFF THE AFRICAN COAST RESCUED BY "TANKS IN THE DESERT" Told by Survivors, set down by Lewis R. Freeman (Permission of Wide World) THE WHITE SILENCE-WINTER IN THE CARPATHIANS IN THE SNOW-CLAD MOUNTAINS WITH THE AUSTRIANS Told by Ludwig Bauer (Permission of New Yorker Staats-Zeitung and New York Tribune) "MY TEN YEARS OF INTRIGUE IN THE KAISER'S SECRET SERVICE" THE PLOT TO DYNAMITE THE WELLAND CANAL Told by Horst Von Der Goltz (Permission of Robert M. McBride and Company and New York World) REAL-LIFE ROMANCES OF THE WAR Told by Malcolm Savage Treacher (Permission of Wide World) THE IRISHMEN OF THE FIGHTING TENTH AT MACEDONIA Told by One of the Fighting Irishmen (Permission of London Weekly Despatch) THE ARTIFICIAL VOLCANO AN INCIDENT OF THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN IN THE DOLOMITES Told by Capitano Z--, of the Royal Italian Engineers (Permission of Wide World) LAST HOURS OF EDITH CAVELL ON NIGHT OF EXECUTION EXPERIENCE OF AMERICAN DIPLOMAT IN EFFORT TO SAVE LIFE OF ENGLISH NURSE Told by Hugh Gibson
