True Stories
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共 221 题- TRUE STORIES OF THE GREAT WAR
- VOLUME VI
- CONTENTS
- VOLUME VI--FORTY STORY-TELLERS--165 EPISODES
- II--HE ENTERS THE STRANGE HOUSE
- III--HE STANDS BEFORE VON HINDENBURG
- IV--"WHAT VON HINDENBURG TOLD ME"
- V--"WHEN I LEFT VON HINDENBURG"
- FOOTNOTE:
- II--IN THE BARBED-WIRE "MAN-TRAPS"
- III--STORIES OF SHORTY HOLLOWAY--"PROFESSOR OF TRENCHES"
- I had no explanation to offer.
- I stood my rifle against the side of the trench and crept in.
- I backed out in all haste.
- IV--THE "SUICIDE CLUB"--A BOMBING SQUAD
- V--AT THE "MUD LARKS'" BEAUTY SHOP
- VI--FLIES--RATS--AND DOMESTIC SCIENCE
- FOOTNOTE:
- II--THE TRUTH ABOUT GERMAN ATROCITIES
- III--TRUE STORIES OF "THE UNSPEAKABLE CRIME"
- IV--MURDER--LOOT--RAPINE--IN BELGIUM
- FOOTNOTE:
- THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S VISIT TO THE FRONT
- II--SOLDIERS SINGING: "JESUS LOVER OF MY SOUL"
- III--"THE KINGDOM OF GOD"--NEAR THE GUNS
- IV--THE CANADIANS--AND A BENEDICTION
- FOOTNOTE:
- II--HIS MAJESTY'S LAND SHIP--"WE ARE HERE"
- III--HOW THE "TOMMIES" CHEERED THE "PEPPER POTS"--TANK TALES
- IV--JONAH'S SHIP RECHRISTENED--"THE D.T.'S"
- FOOTNOTE:
- A NOVELIST AND SOLDIER ON THE BATTLE LINE
- II--OFF FOR FRANCE--ACROSS THE CHANNEL
- III--"HERE I AM IN FRANCE--A SOLDIER"
- DEAREST M.:
- IV--"I HAVE SEEN MY FIRST BATTLEFIELD"
- V--"I AM IN THE TRENCHES--UNDER FIRE"
- CON.
- VI--LIVING WITH DEATH AS YOUR COMRADE
- VII--GLORY OF WAR IS IN MEN'S SOULS
- VIII--MEN MARCHING TO "CALVARY"
- IX--AMERICA MUST SACRIFICE--OR DIE
- FOOTNOTE:
- STORIES OF THE WAR PHOTOGRAPHERS IN BELGIUM
- II--STORIES OF THE WAR PHOTOGRAPHERS IN BELGIUM
- III--HOW CAMERA MEN RISK THEIR LIVES
- IV--WHEN LENS HAS A HEART
- V--A THOUSAND HORSES STRAIN AT THEIR BRIDLES
- FOOTNOTE:
- TALES OF THE FIRST BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE TO FRANCE
- II--CROSSING THE CHANNEL ON TRANSPORTS
- III--LANDING IN FRANCE--TOMMIES IN HAVRE
- IV--QUARTERED IN A BELGIAN WATER-MILL
- V--AT MADAM MERE'S--BEFORE THE STORM
- FOOTNOTE:
- IN THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY--EXPERIENCES OF A PRISONER OF WAR
- II--WITH THE DYING SOLDIERS AT LANDRECIES
- III--ON A PRISON TRAIN--GOING TO GERMANY
- IV--STORY OF PRISON LIFE AT TORGAU
- FOOTNOTE:
- I--STORY OF THE INDIAN PACK MULE CORPS
- II--HEROISM OF THE SILENT HINDUS
- They roared with laughter, and ever afterwards called him "Himalayas."
- THE INDIAN TRANSPORT TRAIN
- FOOTNOTE:
- SEEING THE WAR THROUGH A WOMAN'S EYES
- I--"THEY HAVE NOTHING LEFT--NOT EVEN TEARS"
- II--"IF HE DIED, I SHOULD HAVE FELT GUILTY"
- III--STORY OF THE DYING ALGERIAN
- IV--"WHAT I HAVE SEEN IN PARIS"
- I turned toward the child: "Who gave you that?"
- V--"THEY ARE ALL DEAD NOW"
- VI--"THEY WILL PAY FOR THIS MISERY"
- VII--"THE CHILDREN WHO ARE MUTILATED"
- LOST ON A SEAPLANE AND SET ADRIFT IN A MINE-FIELD
- I--"MY HUNDREDTH FLIGHT OVER THE NORTH SEA"
- II--"S. O. S." MESSAGE ON MACHINE GUN
- III--"WE WERE FLOATING OVER DYNAMITE"
- IV--"AN AEROPLANE COMES TO RESCUE"
- HOW I HELPED TO TAKE THE TURKISH TRENCHES AT GALLIPOLI
- I--STORY OF AN AMERICAN RUN-AWAY
- II--"HOW I REACHED THE DARDANELLES"
- III--"TAKE THOSE TRENCHES OR DON'T COME BACK!"
- IV--THE TURKISH GIRL BEFORE THE FIRING SQUAD
- V--CAPTURED ON BELGIAN COAST
- VI--BACK TO TURKEY--THEN TO AMERICA
- I--THE SOLDIERS IN THE CAFE SALOME
- II--THE AMERICAN ADVENTURER TELLS HIS TALE
- III--CATAPULT THAT HURLS BOMBS
- IV--"BIG-BANG" HIS ONLY FRIEND
- I--WHERE ALL DIALECTS MEET AT BATTLE
- II--OLD FRIENDS AT THE FRONT
- III--DEEP IN A SOLDIER'S HEART
- IV--IN THE BOWELS OF THE EARTH
- V--INVENTIVE GENIUS OF THE SOLDIERS
- COMEDIES OF THE GREAT WAR
- I--STORIES TOLD "ON THE SOLDIERS"
- II--THE OFFICER WITH THE MONOCLE
- III--THE GERMANS WHO SANG "RULE BRITTANIA"
- IV--STORY OF A FISHERMAN AND A MINE
- V--THE COCKNEY AND HIS "SOOVENEER"
- Pressed for the story, the owner of the unexpected article proceeded:--
- VI--THE COOK AND THE BOMB IN GREECE
- VII--A SEA-TALE--THE LIEUTENANT'S STANCHIONS
- LITTLE STORIES OF THE BIG WAR
- I--STORY OF A MOTHER'S TRAGEDY
- II--HOW CAPT. PEIFER WON HIS "POUR LE MERITE"
- III--STORY OF AUTOMOBILE THAT CAPTURED AN AEROPLANE
- IV--STORY OF THE "UNDERGROUND RAILROAD"
- POGROM--THE TRAGEDY OF THE JEWS AND THE ARMENIANS
- I--STORY OF GABRIEL GABRILOVITCH
- II--THE COSSACK LIEUTENANT'S HATRED
- III--THE PLOT THAT FAILED
- IV--IN HIS BREAST HIS OWN BULLET
- TALE OF THE SAVING OF PARIS
- I--IN NORMANDY--STORY OF OCTAVIE DELACOURT
- II--WAS HE GOING TO BAYONET HER?
- III--"BUT FOR A CURSED COUNTRY WOMAN!"
- HOW IT FEELS TO A CLERGYMAN TO BE TORPEDOED ON A MAN-OF-WAR
- I--"MY LIFE SPARED IN MIRACULOUS WAY"
- II--"I SAW THE TORPEDO APPROACH"
- III--THE WAY MEN MEET DEATH
- LEON BARBESSE, SLACKER, SOLDIER, HERO
- I--"I MET HIM IN THE TRENCHES ON THE SOMME"
- II--THE CONFESSION OF A SLACKER
- III--"WE WERE MARCHING TO INFERNO"
- IV--"HOW I CONQUERED MY FEAR"
- V--"I DASHED FORWARD INTO EXPLODING SHELLS"
- THE DESERTER--A BELGIAN INCIDENT
- I--STORY OF AN AMERICAN AT THE BARONIAL CASTLE
- II--"WE FOUND A STARVING GERMAN"
- III--THE DESERTER'S LAST HOUR
- IV--"WE BURIED HIM IN THE PIT"
- GRIM HUMOR OF THE TRENCHES
- I--AN IRISHMAN TELLS HIS TALE
- II--"I WAS IN A CAVE ON CHRISTMAS EVE"
- III--"EVERYBODY IS A HERO"
- PRIVATE McTOSHER DISCOVERS LONDON
- I--STORY OF THE HIGHLANDER ON FURLOUGH
- II--THE SCOTCHMAN TELLS HIS OWN TALE
- III--ON THE WAY TO PICCADILLY
- IV--"I'VE WALKED THE SEWERS OF LONDON"
- V--"AND I WENT TO THE CINEMA"
- RUSSIAN COUNTESS IN THE ARABIAN DESERT
- I--ON THE GREAT ARABIAN DESERT
- II--GUEST OF A BEDOUIN SULTAN
- III--UNDER ESPIONAGE IN DAMASCUS
- IV--ACROSS DESERT ON CAMEL CARAVAN
- V--HELD PRISONER--ESCAPE TO EGYPT
- GERMAN STUDENTS TELL WHAT SHERMAN MEANT
- I--"DRIVEN TO DEATH BY ME"
- WALTHER HARICH.
- II--HORRORS OF "NO MAN'S LAND"
- I had to go.
- WILHELM SPENGLER.
- III--A BELGIAN MOTHER AND HER BABE
- WILLY TRELLER.
- BAITING THE BOCHE--THE WIT OF THE BELGIANS
- I--STORY OF M. MAX--BURGOMASTER
- II--HOW HE OUTWITTED THE PRUSSIANS
- M. Max looked at him with a smile.
- M. Max looked at him coldly.
- III--HUMOR OF THE WITTY BRUXELLOIS
- IV--THE JOKERS OF BRUSSELS
- V--THE SECRET NEWSPAPER--_LIBRE BELGIQUE_
- HOW SERGEANT O'LEARY WON HIS VICTORIA CROSS
- I--WHO IS THE BRAVEST MAN IN THE WAR?
- II--STORY OF THE YOUNG IRISH GUARD
- III--TALE OF A GORDON HIGHLANDER
- STORY OF A RUSSIAN IN AN AUSTRIAN PRISON
- I--"I WAS PRISONER OF THE MAGYARS"
- We all exclaimed: "We won't. Shoot us, but we will not do the work."
- II--STANDING BEFORE THE EXECUTIONER
- III--"WE ESCAPED TO ITALIAN FRONTIER"
- TWO WEEKS ON A SUBMARINE
- I--"I WAS ON A NORWEGIAN SHIP"
- II--"I WAS ABOARD THE U-39"
- A GERMAN BATTALION THAT PERISHED IN THE SNOW
- I--TRAGIC STORY OF A NIGHT FIGHT
- II--"SO PERISHED A WHOLE BATTALION"
- THE FATAL WOOD--"NOT ONE SHALL BE SAVED"
- I--POILUS GOING TO SAVE VERDUN
- And Lieutenant R---- proceeded to tell his story as follows:--
- II--LIEUTENANT R---- TELLS HIS STORY
- III--ON THE EVE OF THE _COUP_
- IV--"COUP OF CAURES WOOD"
- HEROISM AND PATHOS OF THE FRONT
- I--STORY OF A YOUNG SCOTTISH SOLDIER
- II--THE MIRACLE OF DEATH
- III--THE PIPER PLAYED "LOCHABER NO MORE"
- AN AVIATOR'S STORY OF BOMBARDING THE ENEMY
- I--"OUR FLIGHT AT DAY BREAK"
- II--"WE DROPPED BOMBS ON THE ENEMY"
- A DAY IN A GERMAN WAR PRISON
- I--THE ANIMALS IN THE "ZOO"
- II--"A BELGIAN IN GERMAN UNIFORM"
- III--PRISON KEEPER TELLS HIS STORY
- MURDER TRIAL OF CAPT. HERAIL OF FRENCH HUSSARS
- I--KILLED HIS WIFE--TRIED BY COURT-MARTIAL
- II--MME. HERAIL DEFIED MILITARY LAW
- III--DRAMATIC SCENE BETWEEN HUSBAND AND WIFE
- IV--"HE AIMED AT HIS WIFE--AND FIRED"
- V--THE VERDICT--"NOT GUILTY!"
- HOW THEY KILLED "THE MAN WHO COULD NOT DIE"
- I--STORY OF THE ITALIAN ALPINI
- II--"MY GOD! A GENERAL!"
- III--TALES OF GENERAL CANTORE
- HOW MLLE. DUCLOS WON THE LEGION OF HONOR
- I--DECORATED BY MARSHAL JOFFRE
- II--MLLE. DUCLOS TELLS HER STORY
- III--SHE PLUNGES HER MOTOR INTO THE GERMANS
- THE RUSSIAN "JOAN OF ARC'S" OWN STORY
- I--"BELIEVE NONE OF THOSE GERMAN LIES"
- II--"TO MY FRIENDS IN AMERICA"
- AN ITALIAN SOLDIER'S LAST MESSAGE TO HIS MOTHER
- I--"TO DIE A BEAUTIFUL AND GLORIOUS DEATH"
- MOTHER:
- II--"WEEP NOT, MY DEAR MOTHER"
- III--"GOOD-BYE, MOTHER--WE SHALL NOT DIE IN VAIN"
- GIOSUE BORSI.
- Transcriber's Notes