Golden Lads

About this eBook

Author

Gleason, Helen Hayes

Credits

Produced by Sigal Alon, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Language

English

LoC Class

D501: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War I (1914-1918)

Subject

World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives

Category

Text

eBook-No.

19131

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19131

Release Date

August 28, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.GOLDEN LADS — THE PLAY-BOYS OF THE WESTERN FRONT. — GOLDEN LADS — BY
2. 2.HELEN HAYES GLEASON — WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY — THEODORE ROOSEVELT — TO THE SAILORS OF BRITTANY THE BOY SOLDIERS OF THE FRENCH FUSILIERS MARINS WHOSE WOUNDED IT WAS OUR PRIVILEGE TO CARRY IN FROM THE FIELD OF HONOR AT MELLE, DIXMUDE, AND NIEUPORT — CONCERNING THIS BOOK
3. 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.INTRODUCTION — By Theodore Roosevelt
6. 6.THE CONQUERORS
7. 7.THE SPY — PEASANTS' COTTAGES BURNED BY GERMANS. — THE HOME OF A GERMAN SPY NEAR COXYDE BAINS, BELGIUM.
8. 8.THE ATROCITY — THE GREEN PASS, USED ONLY BY SOLDIERS AND OFFICERS OF THE BELGIAN ARMY. — CHURCH IN TERMONDE WHICH THE WRITER SAW.
9. 9.BALLAD OF THE GERMANS
10. 10.THE STEAM ROLLER
11. 11.MY EXPERIENCE WITH BAEDEKER
12. 12.GOLDEN LADS
13. 13.THE PLAY-BOYS OF BRITTANY — LES FUSILIERS MARINS — SAILORS LIFTING A WOUNDED COMRADE INTO THE MOTOR-AMBULANCE.
14. 14."ENCHANTED CIGARETTES" — DOOR CHALKED BY THE GERMANS.
15. 15.WAS IT REAL? — STREET FIGHTING IN ALOST.
16. 16."CHANTONS, BELGES! CHANTONS!" — BELGIAN OFFICER ON THE LAST STRIP OF HIS COUNTRY. — A BELGIAN BOY SOLDIER IN THE UNIFORM OF THE FIRST ARMY WHICH SERVED AT LIEGE AND NAMUR. — BELGIANS IN THEIR NEW KHAKI UNIFORM. IN PRAISE OF WHICH THEY WROTE A SONG. — EN KHAKI
17. 17.FLIES: A FANTASY
18. 18.WOMEN UNDER FIRE — BRETON SAILORS READY FOR THEIR NOON MEAL IN A VILLAGE UNDER DAILY SHELL FIRE.
19. 19.HOW WAR SEEMS TO A WOMAN — ( By Mrs. Arthur Gleason ) — SLEEPING QUARTERS FOR BELGIAN SOLDIERS. — BELGIAN SOLDIERS TELEPHONING TO AN ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN THE APPROACH OF A GERMAN TAUBE. — POSTCARDS SKETCHED AND BLOCKED BY A BELGIAN WORKMAN, A. VAN DOORNE.
20. 20.LES TRAVAILLEURS DE LA GUERRE — LA VALSE DES OBUS — There is little value in telling of suffering unless something can be done about it. So I close this book with an appeal for help in a worthy work.
21. 21.REMAKING FRANCE — THE END — FOOTNOTES

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