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Title: In the Claws of the German Eagle

Author: Albert Rhys Williams

Release Date: March 2, 2004 [eBook #11414]

Language: English

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IN THE CLAWS OF THE GERMAN EAGLE

ALBERT RHYS WILLIAMS

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

My thanks go to the Editors of The Outlook for permission to
reproduce the articles which first appeared in that magazine.

Also to many friends all the way from Maverick to Pasadena.
Above all to Frank Purchase, my comrade in the first weeks of the
war and always.

Contents

Instead of a Preface

Part I
The Spy-Hunters Of Belgium

Chapter
I. A Little German Surprise Party
II. Sweating Under The German Third Degree
III. A Night On A Prison Floor
IV. Roulette And Liberty

Part II
On Foot With The German Army

V. The Gray Hordes Out Of The North
VI. In The Black Wake Of The War
VII. A Duelist From Marburg
VIII. Thirty-Seven Miles In A Day

Part III
With The War Photographers In Belgium

IX. How I Was Shot As A German Spy
X. The Little Belgian Who Said, "You Betcha"
XI. Atrocities And The Socialist

Part IV
Love Among The Ruins

Chapter

XII. The Beating Of "The General"
XIII. America In The Arms Of France
XIV. No-Man's-Land

Afterword

Instead Of A Preface

The horrible and incomprehensible hates and brutalities of the
European War! Unspeakable atrocities! Men blood-lusting like a lot
of tigers!

Horrible they are indeed. But my experiences in the war zone
render them no longer incomprehensible. For, while over there, in
my own blood I felt the same raging beasts. Over there, in my own
soul I knew the shattering of my most cherished principles.

It is not an unique experience. Whoever has been drawn into the
center of the conflict has found himself swept by passions of
whose presence and power he had never dreamed.

For example: I was a pacifist bred in the bone. Yet, caught in Paris
at the outbreak of th