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<dl><dd>Introduction : Bravery / by Rupert Hughes -- The soldier (poem) / by Rupert Brooke -- [pt. 1] FIELD AND TRENCH ORDEALS -- "And a few marines" : eyewitness account of the Belleau Wood action in the Marne Salient beginning June 6th, 1918 -- "Forward, lancers!" : and Captain Grenfell's cavalry troops lived over "the Charge of the Light Brigade" -- An unparalled hero : the Church elder and champion turkey-shooter who killed 25 Germans and captured a machine gun battalion -- The nemesis of flame : a vision of inferno from which even a Dante would have shrunk--"what hell must be like" -- He jests at scars : a bomb thrower and tank master who "paid his way in Huns" -- Epic of the Foreign Legion : its wonderful story will stand as one of the vital things of the war -- "Doc" of the Fifth : the conversion of the Rev. J. H. Clifford, "Y" worker, into a hero among marines -- Couldn't stop them : thro' Turkish shells and barbed-wire sea they landed at Gallipoli -- One of our boys : a California youth of heroic soul who gave his life to England -- Guthrie of the Kilties : the first Canadian to enlist came back with scars of twenty-two wounds -- Not so unspeakable : a Turk whose sense of humor made the Tommies his friends in Gallipoli -- The medical corps : though the reports are all too few every doctor was a hero -- Some Red Cross weaklings : Captain Bobo and his buddies weren't good enough for the doctors -- "Eh! Mon, 'twas grand!" : A Braw Hieland laddie's impressions of what happened when "we were over the top like a lot of dogs let loose" -- One survived : an episode of the Gallipoli campaign typical of the fighting -- Tank-man talks : he found the little fellows to his taste but didn't care for heavies -- The Garibaldi code : "to be ready ever to fight for the cause they think is right" -- The bald facts : a story of the trenches by one who knew them at their worst -- O'Leary stepped in : and faith, never a Dumas hero, was a marker to this sergeant of the Irish Guards -- When the Yanks went in : the story of the first American soldiers to go it alone in banging the Huns -- Humor and heroism : glimpses of the sunnier side of the men who played with death -- England's Indian warriors : who made up the Indian army; and some V. C. heroes -- A lively introduction : an ambulance man's first twenty-four hours at the Front Well diversified -- "A valiant gentleman" : so comrades named Dick Hall, one of the first of ours to die -- Where denominations end : a Christian priest who was a hero too found they vanished at the front -- "Buckeyes" or "spearheads" : how the Ohio doughboys managed to pick up a new nickname in France -- Corporal Holmes' way : and a right good way to win the V. C. and the hearts of men -- Not dead but fighting : Jim Gardner quit the trolley to do his bit and did it thoroughly -- When the light failed : one soldier tells what it is like to have eyes shot out -- The "cloud of blacks" : terrible effect of a charge of Senegals upon German officer's [sic] sensibilities -- Hubbell bagged 'em : a lone corporal captures 31 of the enemy in a morning frolic -- Was he a coward? : the singular confessions of a Hollander who gave his life for France -- Two heroes of Hill 60 : Oxford graduate and green-grocer's assistant win their spurs in the same crisis -- Colonel Freyberg, V. C. : a New Zealand soldier with the qualities of a Fenimore Cooper hero -- One of the D. S. C. men : an act of heroism and martyrdom that hardly may be matched -- Colored troops reach the Rhine : though they had more than their share of trouble to get to France -- Good old Potts : one of the men the British took to Gallipoli to show their grit -- It was up to Bill : and in spite of regulations and red tape the old sergeant got to France and into the front lines -- The rendezvous : one of America's young poets keep a tryst while fighting for France -- Staying to the end : how a handful of Russian "madmen" held the fort until they were wiped out -- Without the glamour : a lieutenant of the Royal Irish Fusiliers that stormed Ginchy paints war's horrors in vivid language -- Big Adam's hare soup : how the Scotch snipers fortified themselves against a German attack at dawn -- A "blue grass" Canadian : Sergeant McClintock was brave enough to confess war has its scare -- Mistress "Razzle-Dazzle" : a rampageous, self-willed old thing fondly remembered by her non-commander -- The painter-soldier : though exempt by age the love art deepened bade him fight for France</dd>
<dd>[pt. 2] WOMEN WHO DARED -- Edith Cavell--martyr-heroine : the English nurse whose tragic heroism and secret execution made Germany's defeat more certain -- A Picardy heroine : the story of Marcelle Semmer, who held up the advance of a German army corps -- Girls of the "battalion" : Russian women who gave splendid proof that soldierly valor knows no sex -- Her ambulance unit : an English woman's contribution was her fortune and the daily risk of her life -- A true heroine : the type of woman from which fate fashions Jeannes D'Arc -- A heroine of humanity : this young Englishwomen risked death in a hideous form to save the lives of others</dd>
<dd>[pt. 3] ADVENTURE IN THE AIR -- One of the great "aces" : Raoul Lufbery, the Connecticut boy who roamed the world to die a hero in France -- The Lafayette Escadrille : an air squadron made famous by American youth before America entered the war -- A "legendary hero" : the place in fame to which the French assign their miracle "ace" -- Worthy citation : a distinguished service on the battle front for which no honors provision has been made -- A challenge duel : the guns of both armies suspend fire as captains Ball and Immelman fight in air -- An American wonder : the brief but greatly achieving career of Lieut. Frank Luke, Jr.--his mysterious end -- One to twenty-two : the formidable odds against which a young English pilot daringly battled, only to fall 14,000 feet into the sea -- From saddle to cockpit : it was a problem of mud that turned trooper Bishop into an "ace" of the Royal Flying Corps -- Dodging "Jack Death" : a German aviator's perils and escapes on an observation tour -- Warneford's triumph : the brilliant exploit that marked the first "down" of a "Zepp" by airplane -- One minute plus : three attacking Hun machines downed by "Ricky" in about seventy ticks -- "The pictures are good" : that's all that observation pilot Miller cared about when the end came -- Subduing the Turk : when Captain Bott, the British ace, found backshish a cure of captivity -- A daring pursuit : in an ordinary plane aviator Bone chased a German sea-plane over sea -- The Roosevelt boys : four sons of a famous fighter gather their own laurels of war -- Just what he wanted : a restless seeker after excitement, the war filled the bill for Lieutenant Roberts -- "The red battle flier" : Von Richthofen's brilliant career in the air an offset to his failure as a [sic] Uhlan -- Pat O'Brien outwits the Hun : the remarkable story of an American boy in a seventy-two day's ordeal of escape from the Germans -- A track and trackless winner : Eddie Rickenbacker, who won popularity as an auto racer, snatched lasting glory from the void -- The gunboat (poem) / by Dana Burnet</dd>
<dd>[pt. 4] SEA AND SUB-SEA STORIES -- Captain Fryatt's murder : a court-martial in which vengeful malice mocked justice and the rules of naval war in the lust of blood -- Jules Verne vindicated : how Capt. Paul Koenig of the Deutschland turned incredible fiction into practical reality -- Weddigen's wonder feat : the dramatic sinking of three British cruisers by U-boat in the early days of the war -- Torpedoed! : a nurse's graphic personal narrative of the wanton destruction of the Sussex -- The valleys of the blue shrouds (poem) / by John Finley -- Rizzo sinks the Wien : an Italian lieutenant braves batteries and mines and harbor wire in novel feat -- Edith Cavell (poem) / by Laurence Binyon -- As of old : an engagement when pistol and cutlass revived memories of notable sea fights of the past -- Death in a submarine : one of a crew that was saved tells of the thrilling moments just before the final plunge -- A notable exploit : two Italian naval officers destroy an Austrian dreadnought in a novel way -- Rescue extraordinary : the impossible done in saving fifty lives from the flooded and sunken submarine K-13 -- I have a rendezvous with death (poem) / by Alan Seeger -- Tricking the Turk : Lieutenant-Commander Holbrook's perilous adventure to surprise and blow up a warship at the Dardanelles -- Canadians (poem) / by W. H. Ogilvie -- First of its kind : eye-witness account of a duel at sea between great steamers built for passenger traffic -- Not to be forgotten : the men who captained the merchant ships are among the heroes of the war -- Christmas in the trenches (poem) / by Dan Burnet</dd>
<dd>[pt. 5] ESPIONAGE AND SPIES -- Spying at its worst : the German Secret Service system the scrap basket of official honor -- As to spies in England : a dozen were shot, hundreds were imprisoned, but "cherished spies" were allowed to go free because their work was so bad -- Edith Cavell (poem) / by George Edward Woodberry -- The spy--mill : it did not wait for winds to swing its arms for German guidance -- Alois the silent : he planned to end the war by slaying its instigator and failing--died -- Eye of the morning : the popular Dutch dancer who played the role of German spy to her cost -- Better wrecker than spy : scion of a noble Prussian family who failed to deliver the goods -- Delicate scruples : one of Von Papen's dynamiters more conscientious than his chief -- Frustrated diabolism : a ruthless tool of German duplicity fails only because he trusted the wrong man with his secret -- Here's to Constable Ritchings : it is probable that his record is unique in the annals of war since Spartan days -- What Gilles brought in : driving his automobile over a shell-swept road a French lad braved death to deliever the dead</dd>
<dd>[pt. 6] AMERICAN AT THE FRONT -- The rock of the Marne : the story of Col. U. G. McAlexander and the heroic 38th Infantry, defenders of the Surmelin valley, the "gateway to Paris" -- America's highest war honor : the 78 soldiers who won the Congressional Medal of Honor for an act of supreme courage</dd></dl><br>Subjects: World War, 1914-1918</div>
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<dl><dd>Barron, Elwyn Alfred, 1855- ed</dd>
<dd>Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956</dd></dl></div>
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