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.

Wounded Heroes of France

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

Wounded Heroes of France

ABBE FELIX KLEIN THE descriptions which are to follow belong to history already ancient; to the end of 1917 and the beginning of 1918. So…

Wounded Heroes of France: Dante

To this brillant and epic beginning succeeded a long and sombre tragedy, to this Iliad worthy of a Homer an Inferno worthy of a Dante. So…

Wounded Heroes of France: Patience

But to support, while we waited, the monotonous trench-life to accomplish the rapid nocturnal raids or the formidable exploits of the great…

Wounded Heroes of France: Patriotism

Only austere love of duty can sustain a man at such a height. A schoolmaster-sergeant of Lyon, Philippe Gonnard, voices it to a friend…

Wounded Heroes of France: Arise

Self-sacrifice of the wounded. "Arise, ye dead!"

Wounded Heroes of France: Malmaison

I, personally, received such answers from wounded who came to us from the Chemin-des-Dames, or from the fort of Malmaison. When I asked for…

Wounded Heroes of France: Often

Often impatient to rejoin his comrades.

Wounded Heroes of France: Humanity

Humanity has never shown such moral grandeur.

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