Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 50807-h.htm or 50807-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50807/50807-h/50807-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50807/50807-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See https://archive.org/details/truestoriesofgre05mill 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 V 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 This group of stories for VOLUME V has been selected by the Board of Editors according to the plan outlined in "Introductory" to Volume I. It includes episodes from thirty-one story-tellers--tales of Dragoons, Marines, Bishops, Foreign Legion, Fleet Surgeon, Scouts, Exiles, Soldiers, Spies and Eye-Witnesses. The selections have been made from the most authoritative sources in Europe and America. Full credit is given in every instance to the original source. VOLUME V--THIRTY-ONE STORY-TELLERS--142 EPISODES TALES OF THE DARING RIDES OF A FRENCH TROOPER 1 WITH THE TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT OF DRAGOONS Told by Lieut. Christian Mallet of the Dragoons (Permission of E. P. Dutton and Company) "TO RUHLEBEN--AND BACK" LIFE IN A GERMAN PRISON 18 WHERE THE BRITISH CIVILIAN PRISONERS ARE HELD IN DETENTION CAMP Told by Geoffrey Pyke, an English Prisoner (Permission of Houghton, Mifflin and Company) AN AMERICAN AT BATTLE OF THE SOMME WITH FRENCH ARMY 36 ARMY LIFE WITH THE SOLDIERS ALONG THE SOMME Told by Frederick Palmer (Permission of Dodd, Mead and Company) AN AMERICAN'S EXPERIENCES "INSIDE THE GERMAN EMPIRE" 53 Told by Herbert Bayard Swope (Permission of The Century Company) "DIXMUDE"--AN EPIC OF THE FRENCH MARINES 64 STORY OF THE MURDER OF COMMANDER JEANNIOT Told by Charles Le Goffic of the Fusiliers Marins (Permission of J. B. Lippincott Company) A BISHOP AT THE FRONT WITH THE BRITISH ARMY 75 Told by Right Reverend H. Russell Wakefield, Bishop of Birmingham (Permission of Longmans, Green and Company) SHORT RATIONS--THE TRUTH ABOUT LIFE IN GERMANY 83 AN AMERICAN WOMAN IN GERMANY Told by Madeline Zabriskie Doty (Permission of The Century Company) FIGHTING "WITH THE RUSSIAN ARMY"--ON THE AUSTRIAN FRONT 92 THE COLOSSAL STRUGGLE OF THE SLAVS Told by Barnard Pares (Permission of Houghton, Mifflin and Company)