Available as a free downloadable eBook in a variety of formats from Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39467 _Christ’s Journal_, Autograph Editions, 2007. Available as a separately printed illustrated edition from Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Christs-Journal-Paul-Alexander-Bartlett/dp/0615156452/ref=sr*1*1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325740964&sr=1-1 Available as a free downloadable eBook in a variety of formats from Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39400 Available as a free downloadable audiobook from: https://archive.org/details/VoicesFromThePast-ChristsJournal *TO THE YOUTH OF THE WORLD* _Allons, enfants de la patrie,_ _Le jour de la gloire est arrivé!_ --_La Marseillaise_ _Forward, children of our country,_ _the day of glory is at hand._ *Forward, Children!* *by* *Paul Alexander Bartlett* *INTRODUCTION* *Steven James Bartlett* _Forward, Children!_ is a gripping anti-war novel. It brings vividly back to life the experience of WWII tank warfare as it was fought and endured by soldiers in the tank corps. The novel is also a story of love in French Ermenonville, where Rousseau lived during the last period in his life and was buried. The title _Forward, Children!_ comes from the opening line of _La Marseillaise_, the French national anthem (_Allons, enfants de la patrie_). _Forward, Children!_ is a novel that was long in the making. Paul Alexander Bartlett completed the first manuscript of _Forward, Children!_ in the years before the outbreak of the second world war. He had been deeply affected by the first world war, by the horrors and suffering it caused. Wishing to bring to readers a convincing and powerful first-hand experience of that war, he portrayed in the first version of _Forward, Children!_ the hardship and terror of tank warfare as it had been conducted by the American Expeditionary Forces Tank Corps during World War I. Renowned English novelist, poet, and critic Ford Madox Ford thought highly of _Forward, Children!_, and shortly before his death devoted a large part of an essay published in the _Saturday Review of Literature_ to praise for the novel, urging its publication.