True Stories of the Great War, Volume VI (of 6)

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Editor

Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959

Title

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

Credits

E-text prepared by Brian Coe, Moti Ben-Ari, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries ( archive.org/details/americana)

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.

51206

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51206

Release Date

February 13, 2016

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.TRUE STORIES OF THE GREAT WAR
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3."BEHIND THE GERMAN VEIL" WITH VON HINDENBURG — FOOTNOTE:
4. 4."KITCHENER'S MOB"—ADVENTURES OF AN AMERICAN WITH THE BRITISH ARMY — FOOTNOTE:
5. 5."HOW BELGIUM SAVED EUROPE"—THE LITTLE KINGDOM OF HEROES — FOOTNOTE:
6. 6.THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S VISIT TO THE FRONT — FOOTNOTE:
7. 7."GRAPES OF WRATH"—WITH THE "BIG PUSH" ON THE SOMME — FOOTNOTE:
8. 8.A NOVELIST AND SOLDIER ON THE BATTLE LINE — FOOTNOTE:
9. 9.STORIES OF THE WAR PHOTOGRAPHERS IN BELGIUM — FOOTNOTE:
10. 10.TALES OF THE FIRST BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE TO FRANCE — FOOTNOTE:
11. 11.IN THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY—EXPERIENCES OF A PRISONER OF WAR — FOOTNOTE:
12. 12."AT SUVLA BAY"—THE WAR AGAINST THE TURKS — FOOTNOTE:
13. 13.SEEING THE WAR THROUGH A WOMAN'S EYES
14. 14.LOST ON A SEAPLANE AND SET ADRIFT IN A MINE-FIELD
15. 15.HOW I HELPED TO TAKE THE TURKISH TRENCHES AT GALLIPOLI
16. 16."BIG-BANG"—STORY OF AN AMERICAN ADVENTURER
17. 17."WITH OUR ARMY IN FLANDERS"—FIGHTING WITH TOMMY ATKINS
18. 18.COMEDIES OF THE GREAT WAR
19. 19.LITTLE STORIES OF THE BIG WAR
20. 20.POGROM—THE TRAGEDY OF THE JEWS AND THE ARMENIANS
21. 21.TALE OF THE SAVING OF PARIS
22. 22.HOW IT FEELS TO A CLERGYMAN TO BE TORPEDOED ON A MAN-OF-WAR
23. 23.LEON BARBESSE, SLACKER, SOLDIER, HERO
24. 24.THE DESERTER—A BELGIAN INCIDENT
25. 25.GRIM HUMOR OF THE TRENCHES
26. 26.PRIVATE McTOSHER DISCOVERS LONDON
27. 27.RUSSIAN COUNTESS IN THE ARABIAN DESERT
28. 28.GERMAN STUDENTS TELL WHAT SHERMAN MEANT
29. 29.BAITING THE BOCHE—THE WIT OF THE BELGIANS
30. 30.HOW SERGEANT O'LEARY WON HIS VICTORIA CROSS
31. 31.STORY OF A RUSSIAN IN AN AUSTRIAN PRISON
32. 32.TWO WEEKS ON A SUBMARINE
33. 33.A GERMAN BATTALION THAT PERISHED IN THE SNOW
34. 34.THE FATAL WOOD—"NOT ONE SHALL BE SAVED"
35. 35.HEROISM AND PATHOS OF THE FRONT
36. 36.AN AVIATOR'S STORY OF BOMBARDING THE ENEMY
37. 37.A DAY IN A GERMAN WAR PRISON
38. 38.MURDER TRIAL OF CAPT. HERAIL OF FRENCH HUSSARS
39. 39.HOW THEY KILLED "THE MAN WHO COULD NOT DIE"
40. 40.HOW MLLE. DUCLOS WON THE LEGION OF HONOR
41. 41.THE RUSSIAN "JOAN OF ARC'S" OWN STORY
42. 42.AN ITALIAN SOLDIER'S LAST MESSAGE TO HIS MOTHER
43. 43.Transcriber's Note

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