PAGE THE SPY 3 THE ATROCITY 26 BALLAD OF THE GERMANS 45 THE STEAM ROLLER 48 MY EXPERIENCE WITH BAEDEKER 66 GOLDEN LADS THE PLAY-BOYS OF BRITTANY 79 "ENCHANTED CIGARETTES" 95 WAS IT REAL? 113 "CHANTONS, BELGES! CHANTONS!" 127 FLIES: A FANTASY 152 WOMEN UNDER FIRE 168 HOW WAR SEEMS TO A WOMAN 192 LES TRAVAILLEURS DE LA GUERRE 234 REMAKING FRANCE 253 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE The Play-boys of the Western Front _Frontispiece_ Peasants' cottages burned by Germans 8 The home of a German spy near Coxyde Bains, Belgium 13 The green pass, used only by soldiers and officers of the Belgian Army 33 Church in Termonde which the writer saw 42 One of the dangerous Belgian franc-tireurs 51 Fifteenth century Gothic church in Nieuport 69 Sailors lifting a wounded comrade into the motor-ambulance 87 Door chalked by the Germans 105 Street fighting in Alost 123 Belgian officer on the last strip of his country 134 A Belgian boy soldier in the uniform of the first army which served at Liege and Namur 139 Belgians in their new Khaki uniform, in praise of which they wrote a song 145 Breton sailors ready for their noon meal in a village under daily shell fire 187 Sleeping quarters for Belgian soldiers 206 Belgian soldiers telephoning to an anti-aircraft gun the approach of a German taube 215 Postcards sketched and blocked by a Belgian workman, A. Van Doorne 229 INTRODUCTION By Theodore Roosevelt