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.

With the American Submarines

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

With the American Submarines

A LONDON day of soft and smoky skies, darkened every now and then by capricious and intrusive little showers, was drawing to a close in a…

With the American Submarines: British

I thought of that ominous phrase I had noted in the British records,--"failed to report,"--and I remembered the stolid British captain who…

With the American Submarines: Hello

The captain of the patrol cheerful My guide knocked at a door. Within his tidy little room, the captain who was to go out on patrol was…

With the American Submarines: Branch

The humming of the dynamo was dying away slowly, fading with an effect of lengthening distance. The guitar orchestra, as if to celebrate…

With the American Submarines: Night

Night and day are the same on a submarine.

With the American Submarines: Bill

Captain Bill sat in a retired nook, if a submarine can possibly be said to have a retired nook, with a chart spread open on his knees. The…

With the American Submarines: Seventy

The engineer cried again through the voice-tube. The wake of the vessel roared like a mill-race, the white foam tumbling rosily in the…

With the American Submarines: Crash

According to Captain Bill, who is good at similes, it was as if a giant, wading along through the sea, had given the boat a vast and…

With the American Submarines: Stars

The Stars and Stripes signal to the destroyer "We've got her!" cried somebody aboard the destroyer, in a deep American voice full of the…

With the American Submarines: German

The crowd gathered round Captain Ned, who had established contact (this is a military term quite out of place in a work on the navy) with…

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