World's War Events

Nineteen dispatches from the war's last two years, told by the people who were there — a destroyer officer's diary, Pershing's own report, the raid on Zeebrugge, the fighting Czecho-Slovaks — ending with the Armistice terms and the treaties that redrew the map.

Six Days on the American Firing Line

4 pages in this part of World's War Events.

Six Days on the American Firing Line

CORPORAL H. J. BURBACH We reach the front. "WE have arrived!" The French Army officer, who, skilled through years of actual artillery…

Six Days on the American Firing Line: French

I am not sure how long we stood there waiting for the return of the French officer who was tutoring us for our baptism of fire, but…

Six Days on the American Firing Line: French-and

The training camp where we had prepared for the front after our arrival in France had been purchased by the United States from the French…

Six Days on the American Firing Line: Germans

Suddenly the shell burst above us, and it was more brilliant than day. Frightened! Say, that light is so great and the knowledge that if…

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