In the meantime, that France and her Allies succeed should be the hope and prayer of every American. The fight they are waging is for the things the real, unhyphenated American is supposed to hold most high and most dear. Incidentally, they are fighting his fight, for their success will later save him, unprepared as he is to defend himself, from a humiliating and terrible thrashing. And every word and act of his now that helps the Allies is a blow against frightfulness, against despotism, and in behalf of a broader civilization, a nobler freedom, and a much more pleasant world in which to live. RICHARD HARDING DAVIS. April 11, 1916. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. PRESIDENT POINCARE THANKS AMERICA 3 II. THE MUD TRENCHES OF ARTOIS 35 III. THE ZIGZAG FRONT OF CHAMPAGNE 55 IV. FROM PARIS TO THE PIRAEUS 79 V. WHY KING CONSTANTINE IS NEUTRAL 97 VI. WITH THE ALLIES IN SALONIKA 111 VII. Two Boys Against an Army 152 VIII. THE FRENCH-BRITISH FRONT IN SERBIA 165 IX. VERDUN AND ST. MIHIEL 188 X. WAR IN THE VOSGES 210 XI. HINTS FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO HELP 223 XII. LONDON, A YEAR LATER 245 ILLUSTRATIONS General Sarrail, commanding the Allied armies in Greece, making his first landing in Salonika _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE President Poincare on a visit to the front 18 "Of another house the roof only remained, from under it the rest of the building had been shot away" 48 The stone roof over this glass chandelier in the Arras cathedral was destroyed by shells, and the chandelier not touched 50 General Franchet d'Esperay 70 King Constantine of Greece and commander-in-chief of her armies 102 "In Salonika the water-front belongs to everybody" 122 "On one side of the quay, a moving-picture palace, ... on the other a boat unloading fish" 124 Outside the Citadel, which is mediaeval, Salonika is modern and Turkish 126 "The quay supplied every spy--German, Bulgarian, Turk, or Austrian--with an uninterrupted view" 139 "Hills bare of trees, from which the snow that ran down their slopes had turned the road into a sea of mud" 154