A "Temporary Gentleman" in FranceDawson, A. J. (Alec John)
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A "Temporary Gentleman" in France
Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, British
What they want to know
What they ought to know
What they'll have to know
and what their parents, sweethearts, wives, and all Americans, will
want to know, and can do to help.
A practical book by an American who has been through it all.
The chapters headed "Smokes" and "Thank God the Stretcher Bearers" will
stand among the war classics.
Here is advice, here are suggestions, overlooked in other books, that
will safeguard our boys in France.
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
New York London
* * * * *
_IT IS THE REAL STUFF_
OVER THE TOP
BY AN AMERICAN SOLDIER WHO WENT
ARTHUR GUY EMPEY
MACHINE GUNNER, SERVING IN FRANCE
_AUTHOR OF_
"_FIRST CALL_"
For a year and a half, until he fell wounded in No Man's Land, this
American soldier saw more actual fighting and real warfare than any war
correspondent who has written about the war. His experiences are grim,
but they are thrilling and lightened by a touch of humor as original as
the Soldiers Three. And they are true.
_12°. 16 Illustrations and Diagrams. $1.50 net._
_By mail, $1.65_
TOGETHER WITH TOMMY'S DICTIONARY OF THE
TRENCHES
"_Over The Top with the Best of_
_Luck and Give Them Hell!_"
_The British Soldier's War Cry, as he goes over the_
_top of the trench to the charge_
* * * * *
By Bruce Bairnsfather
"=A War Lord of Laughter=."--_The Literary Digest._
Fragments from
France
Author of
"Bullets & Billets"
_8°. 143 Plates. 15 Small Illustrations_
_$1.75 net. By mail, $1.90_
Captain Bruce Bairnsfather's sketches set all England chuckling,
when they first appeared in the _Bystander_, and they have met with
as hearty a welcome by Americans who have had the luck to see them.
Greatest of all commendation, German prisoners have been known to
become hilarious over these indescribable pictures of life in the
trenches, and war-fed "Tommys" roar over them. Now, with their amusing
captions, they have been gathered into one volume.
These pictures have won in England for the author the title "The man
who made the Empire laugh," and caused the _Literary Digest_ to refer
to him as "A War Lord of Laughter." They are all war pictures, but
calculated to take a deal of the bitterness out of war.
* * * * *
Bullets & Billets
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