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Title: With Our Soldiers in France

Author: Sherwood Eddy

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WITH OUR SOLDIERS IN FRANCE

by

SHERWOOD EDDY

Author of "Suffering and the War," "The Students of Asia," etc.

[Frontispiece: The American Y.M.C.A. Headquarters in Paris.]

Association Press
New York: 124 East 28Th Street
1917
Copyright, 1917, by
The International Committee of
Young Men's Christian Association

To M. H. E.

AND THE REAL HEROES OF THE WAR

THE MOTHERS WHO HAVE GIVEN THEIR SONS

AND THE WIVES WHO HAVE GIVEN THEIR HUSBANDS

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

FOREWORD

I. AT THE FRONT
II. WITH GENERAL PERSHING'S FORCE IN FRANCE
III. A DAY IN THE "BULL RING"
IV. WITH THE BRITISH ARMY
V. LIFE IN A BASE CAMP
VI. THE CAMP OF THE PRODIGALS
VII. RELIGION AT THE FRONT
VIII. THE WORLD AT WAR

ILLUSTRATIONS

The American Y.M.C.A. Headquarters in Paris . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

The "Eagle Hut" in London

Harry Lauder Singing at a Y.M.C.A. Meeting. The officer
seated at the extreme right is Captain "Peg"

Wholesome and Entertaining,
Home Refreshments in London

Three Thousand Soldiers in the Crowded Hut

FOREWORD

The world is at war. Already more than a score of nations,
representing a population of over a thousand millions, or two-thirds of
the entire human race, are engaged in a life-and-death struggle on the
bloody battlefields of Europe, Asia, and Africa. No man can stand in
the mouth of that volcano on a battle front, or meet the trains pouring
in with their weary freight of wounded after