Excerpt from A Soldier's Mother in France ON the lapel of my coat I wear a little pin, a pin with a single star, ruby red on a bar of white. My only son is a member of the American Expeditionary Force in France. More than a million American women wear pins like mine. Some have two stars, three, even four, and every one covers a heart heavy with anxiety and foreboding. That little service pin which mothers wear, fathers, too; sisters, sweethearts, wives, is a sym bol of sacrifice. It should be something more than that. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from A Soldier of France to His Mother: Letters From the Trenches on the Western Front Love is one of the words which return the most often in this correspondence - love of the fields and the plains, of the trees and the stars, of the little animals of the meadows, in a word, of all things, animate and inanimate, of sky and earth; love, too, of the living and the dead, whether friend or foe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from A French Mother in War Time, 1916: Being the Journal of Madame Edouard Drumont Close as our relations with France have been of late years, it is still very hard for most English people to grasp the mentality of the French nation, and fully to understand the point of view from which a French person looks at passing events. It has therefore been thought that a translation of this Journal of Madame Drumont, the wife of the well-known editor of the Libre Parole, might be of interest to English readers, as giving them such an insight. The Journal speaks for itself, and needs no comment, but it may be useful to state that M. Drumont is an Imperialist in politics, and that Paul, who figures so largely, is Madame Drumont's son by a former marriage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from V. R. 76: A French Military Hospital Dear Mr. Reckitt, When you put the material for this book into my hands, you left me great freedom in the matter of editing it. You yourself, you averred, were no penman, and the contributors with one voice refused to contribute till you had exercised all your powers of persuasion. You, who made Ris Hospital, all appeared to think that any one was better qualified than yourselves to write its history. As I read the manuscript, I soon decided to confine my editorial duties to arranging the narrative in chapters and cutting out repetitions. When one writes about a war hospital it seems to me that simplicity and candour are the essentials, and these I found in the sheets you gave me as well as in the papers collected from many sources. We have Ris and its work presented here from many points of view. We see it through the eyes of the matron, hiding the tender heart of a mother behind the cool dignity of her office; the scientist, to whom the horrors of the operating-room mean precious opportunity; of the man of affairs and the man who thinks in terms of gears and cylinders; of Martha, gay amidst her much serving in kitchen and linen-room, and Mary crying at night over the stumps of a poor little mutile the dimly lit ward. The purpose of your book is to recall and perpetuate for your fellow-workers, inside the hospital and out, the memory of three years of service for the wounded soldiers of France. In offering the story to a wider public, you court the criticism of strangers, but the strangers who came to Ris between 1915 and 1918, from west, east, north and south, always left as friends, and I think that your unknown readers will, as they turn the pages of "V.R. 76," become your friends too. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."