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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
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