TRUE STORIES OF THE GREAT WAR TRUE STORIES OF THE GREAT WAR TALES OF ADVENTURE--HEROIC DEEDS--EXPLOITS TOLD BY THE SOLDIERS, OFFICERS, NURSES, DIPLOMATS, EYE-WITNESSES _Collected in Six Volumes From Official and Authoritative Sources_ (_See Introductory to Volume I_) VOLUME III Editor-in-Chief FRANCIS TREVELYAN MILLER (Litt. D., LL.D.) Editor of The Search-Light Library 1917 REVIEW OF REVIEWS COMPANY NEW YORK Copyright, 1917, by REVIEW OF REVIEWS COMPANY CONTENTS The Board of Editors has selected for VOLUME III this group of stories told by Soldiers, Naval Officers, Nurses, Nuns, Refugees, Airmen, Spies, and other participants and eye-witnesses of the Great War. They have been collected from twenty-three of the most authentic sources in Europe and America, and include 143 personal adventures and episodes. The selections have been made according to the plan outlined in the Introductory to Volume I, for selecting from all sources the "Best Stories of the War." Full credit is given in every instance to the original source. All numerals are for the purpose of identifying the various episodes and do not relate to the chapters in the original volumes.--EDITORS. VOLUME III--TWENTY-TWO STORY-TELLERS--143 EPISODES WHAT I FOUND OUT IN THE HOUSE OF A GERMAN PRINCE 1 STORIES OF INTIMATE TALKS WITH THE HOHENZOLLERNS Told by an English-American Governess (Permission of Frederick A. Stokes Company, of New York) "FROM CONVENT TO CONFLICT"--A VISION OF INFERNO 18 A NUN'S ACCOUNT OF THE INVASION OF BELGIUM Told by Sister Antonia, Convent des Filles de Marie (Permission of John Murphy Company, of Baltimore) "WAR LETTERS OF AN AMERICAN WOMAN"--IN BLEEDING FRANCE 30 EXPERIENCES IN THE SIEGE OF PARIS Told by Marie Van Vorst, American Novelist (Permission of John Lane Company, London and New York) "A GERMAN DESERTER'S WAR EXPERIENCE"--HIS ESCAPE 48 "THE INSIDE STORY OF THE GERMAN ARMY" Told by--(Name Withheld) (Permission of B. W. Huebsch, of New York) "THE SOUL OF THE WAR"--TALES OF THE HEROIC FRENCH 70 REVELATIONS OF A WAR CORRESPONDENT Told by Philip Gibbs (Permission of Robert M. McBride and Company, New York) "TRENCHING AT GALLIPOLI"--IN THE LAND OF THE TURKS 91 ADVENTURES OF A NEWFOUNDLANDER Told by John Gallishaw (Permission of the Century Company, of New York) SCENES "IN A FRENCH HOSPITAL" 106 STORIES OF A NURSE Told by M. Eydoux-Demians (Permission of Duffield and Company, of New York) "FLYING FOR FRANCE"--HERO TALES OF BATTLES IN THE AIR 126 WITH THE AMERICAN ESCADRILLE AT VERDUN Told by James R. McConnell (Permission of Doubleday, Page and Company, of New York) THE LOG OF THE "MOEWE"--TALES OF THE HIGH SEAS 166 THE ADVENTURES OF A MODERN PIRATE Told by Count Dohna-Schlodien, her Commander (Permission of Wide-World Magazine)