Grace Harlowe with the American Army on the RhineChase, Josephine
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Grace Harlowe with the American Army on the Rhine
Chase, Josephine
Rhine River -- Juvenile fiction; War stories; World War, 1914-1918 -- Juvenile fiction
The story of the fruition of the Overton girl’s dreams is told in
“GRACE HARLOWE’S GOLDEN SUMMER,” when she became the bride of her
lifelong friend and chum, Tom Gray, and went to “Haven Home” a happy
wife. Grace’s home life was a brief one, for the great world war
enveloped the big white “House Behind the World,” as she had so happily
characterized it. First Tom Gray went away to serve his country in its
hour of need, then Grace followed him as a member of the Overton unit,
and in “GRACE HARLOWE OVERSEAS” is related the story of how she became
involved in the plots of the Old World nearly to her own undoing. In
“GRACE HARLOWE WITH THE RED CROSS IN FRANCE” she is assigned to drive
an ambulance at the front, which she had long yearned to do, and out
there in the thick of the fighting she is called upon to face death
in many forms. It is, however, in a following volume, “GRACE HARLOWE
WITH THE MARINES AT CHATEAU THIERRY,” however, that the Overton girl
meets with hardships and perils that nearly cost her her life. Yet more
thrilling even than this were her experiences as related in “GRACE
HARLOWE WITH THE U. S. ARMY IN THE ARGONNE,” where perhaps the most
desperate fighting of the war occurred.
“GRACE HARLOWE WITH THE YANKEE SHOCK BOYS AT ST. QUENTIN” finds Grace
an active participant in that most brilliant single achievement of the
war, the breaking of the Hindenburg Line, in which, by sheer pluck and
daring, she saves an entire regiment from certain annihilation and wins
a decoration for her heroism.
Following the signing of the armistice the march of the American troops
toward the Rhine began. With them went Grace Harlowe and her faithful
friend, J. Elfreda Briggs, Anne Nesbit having been left behind to
continue her work in a hospital.
Just how it had come about that Grace and Elfreda were to accompany the
troops neither girl knew. The assignment brought joy to both girls,
and especially to Grace, for when the sound of the big guns died away
and an unnatural stillness settled over war-torn Europe she felt ill
at ease, felt as if there were something lacking, though down deep in
her heart was a thankfulness that overbalanced the regret that the
excitement of months in the war zone was a thing of the past. She was
first thankful for the soldiers, then for her husband, Tom Gray, who
also was on his way to the Rhine, and for the little Yvonne, now their
daughter, the child whom Grace had picked up as a waif in a deserted
French village under fire.
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