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A War Nurse's Diary
High courage, deep sympathy without sentimentality, and an all-saving sense of humor amid dreadful and depressing conditions are the salient features of this little book. The author, who preserves her anonymity, has been "over the top" in the fullest sense. She has faced bombardments and aerial raids, she has calmly removed her charges under fire, she has tended the wounded and dying amid scenes of carnage and confusion, and she has created order and comfort where but a short time before all was chaos and suffering. And all the while she marvels at the uncomplaining fortitude of others, never counting her own. Many unusual experiences have befallen this "war nurse" and she writes of them all in a gripping, vivid fashion.
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
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What Mr. Masefield did for the Gallipoli Campaign he now does for the Campaign in France. His subject is the old front line as it was when the battle of the Somme began. This is a graphic and gripping account of the huge conflict seen with the discerning eye of a great poet.
Six Women and the Invasion
By GABRIELLE AND MARGUERITE YERTA
With a Preface by Mrs. Humphry Ward
A description of life in a village near Laon during the War, which as written at first hand is of real value. It gives a vivid account of the inrush of the German army, the flight of the poor women, its failure, and their enforced return to their own homes. The exactions and barbarities of the German soldiers are set forth in detail, culminating in the final brutalities of the deportation.
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Christine
"A book which is true in essentials— so real that one is tempted to doubt whether it is fiction at all — doubly welcome and doubly important. . . . It would be difficult indeed to find a book in which the state of mind of the German people is pictured so cleverly, with so much understanding and convincing detail. . . . Intelligent, generous, sweetnatured, broadminded, quick to see and to appreciate all that is beautiful either in nature or in art, rejoicing humbly over her own great gift, endowed with a keen sense of humour, Christine's is a thoroughly wholesome and lovable character. But charming as Christine's personality and her literary style both are, the main value of the book lies in its admirably lucid analysis of the German mind." — New York Times.
"Absolutely different from preceding books of the war. Its very freedom and girlishness of expression, its very simplicity and open-heartedness, prove the truth of its pictures." —New York World.
"A luminous story of a sensitive and generous nature, the spontaneous expression of one spirited, affectionate, ardently ambitious, and blessed with a sense of humour." — Boston Herald.
"The next time some sentimental old lady of either sex, who 'can't see why we have to send our boys abroad,' comes into your vision, and you know they are too unintelligent (they usually are) to understand a serious essay, try to trap them into reading 'Christine.' If you succeed we know it will do them good." — Town and Country.
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Victor Chapman's Letters
from France
Victor Chapman was studying architecture in Paris when the war broke out and at once he joined the French Foreign Legion. A year later he was transferred to the Aviation Corps and went to the front as pilot in the American Escadrille. This volume comprises his letters written to his family, covering the full period of his service from September, 1914, to a few days before his death. "They are," says the New York Times in commenting on them, "graphic letters that show imaginative feeling and unusual faculty for literary expression and they are filled with details of his daily life and duties and reflect the keen satisfaction he was taking in his experiences. He knew many of those Americans who have won distinction, and some of them death, in the Legion and the Aviation Service, and there is frequent reference to one or another of them. . . . In few of the memorials to those who have laid down their lives in this war is it possible to find quite such a sense of a life not only fulfilled but crowned by its sacrifice, notwithstanding its youthfulness, as one gets from this tribute to Victor Chapman."
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
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Inside the Russian Revolution
Here we have the truth, and the whole truth, as it has never before been written, about Russia and its revolution. It is, undoubtedly, the most important book of recent times on the country and the situation there.
In the course of this remarkable work will be found interviews with many of the leading figures of the revolution — Kerensky and other ministers; Madame Viruboba, the Czarina's intriguing confidante; Botchkareva, leader of the Battalion of Death; and with Prince Felix Yussupoff, who himself describes in startling, vivid fashion how he killed Rasputin.
The book is of enthralling interest, and everyone who is interested in Russia (and who is not just now?) should not fail to read it.
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Publishers64-66 Fifth AvenueNew York