Category: Biographies
Captain Keene has made an interesting contribution to the literature of the present war in his account of service, which covers the experience of a young officer in the making and on the battle front,—the transformation of an artist into a first-class machine-gun officer. He c...
A trip to No Man’s Land is an excursion which you never forget. It varies in width and horrors. My impression was similar to what I should feel being on Broadway without any clo...
6. Chapter 6My section worked until two o’clock and then the sandbags gave out, so we had to come home. This was a disappointment to me. I wanted to get the job finished. My men went on fil...
3. Chapter 3Back in camp. It was hard to come down to it. Our blankets and clothes left in the tent were mildewed, clammy, and partly submerged. Our feet are wet and we are again soldiers,...
2. Chapter 2Blowing a gale. All day the spendrift has been blowing over. The decks have been too wet for parades, thank God! All the way over we have had physical exercise, sometimes as muc...
4. Chapter 4The village in which I am now was visited last September by twelve German officers who came through in motor cars; the villagers cried, “Vivent les Anglais,” for not having seen...
1. Chapter 1Captain Keene has made an interesting contribution to the literature of the present war in his account of service, which covers the experience of a young officer in the making a...
7. Chapter 7In the garden several lonely graves are piled high with old boots, straw, American agricultural implements, rotting sacks and rubbish of every description, pieces of shells, bar...