World War I
I had known F---- through years of hunting and sports in India, but never until the night that our old British-India coaster lay off the Shat-el-Arab bar waiting for the turn of the tide to run up to Bassorah, did I hear him speak of the things that were really next his heart....
The call was pretty persistent for men in those first months of the war and, in spite of the shortage of all kinds of equipment, our training was rushed from the very beginning....
3. Part 3“I think not,” was the reply. “It was a second German machine--one that I hadn’t seen--that brought me down. It came nose-diving down out of a cloud, shaking its tail, and givin...
8. Part 8“As I was telling you,” resumed Radovitch, “dynamite was the one thing we felt the need of more than anything else, and yet--perhaps the one big thing we did wouldn’t have been...
10. Part 10I was far from despairing, however; in fact, I never felt more equal to a situation in my life. The whole thing hinged on my getting my first train. After that I felt I could ma...
2. Part 2“For a while we thought that, mercifully, no life remained in any of the still, sprawling brown figures in front of the _khan_; but presently, with his face covered with the dir...
14. Part 14A chill current of spray began to enfold us at this juncture, and Antonio was just in the midst of an explanation of how it was carried by the wind from a thousand-foot-high qua...
16. Part 16“As the war clouds began to gather, my father sent a letter to each of the five of us abroad, saying that when we received a cable from him we were to start at once for whatever...
7. Part 7Not a sound, not a shadow, heralded the flare of yellow light which suddenly flashed out in the north-eastern heavens and spread latitudinally until the whole body of a Zeppelin...
15. Part 15“Just what I said,” he answered, with a smile. “We were working day and night to excavate a gun-cavern, the fire from which would make that troublesome position untenable for th...
1. Part 1I had known F---- through years of hunting and sports in India, but never until the night that our old British-India coaster lay off the Shat-el-Arab bar waiting for the turn of...
11. Part 11On the occasion I have in mind it was necessary for us, in order to reach a position I especially desired to visit, to climb diagonally across something like three-quarters of a...
6. Part 6At times memories crowded so that they became confused. I was not sure, for instance, whether it was T----, of the _Eimoo_, or P----, of the _Levuka_, whom I had seen go over th...
13. Part 13It was not until, after ten miles of precarious climbing and clawing up the ice-paved, snow-walled road, our car brought up in the midst of a neat little group of Alpine buildin...
4. Part 4The sea raid, the land raid, the airship raid--this was the trio of bugaboos under the menace of which Britain, uninvaded, almost unthreatened, for a thousand years, stirred une...
12. Part 12“Yes, Italy is ready for them,” I thought; and whether she has to hold here and there--as she may--in defence, or whether she goes forward all along the line in triumphant offen...
5. Part 5This must have been somewhere around midnight, and it was by the first light of dawn leaking in through the shattered beams and rafters that we reached the last of the little br...
17. Part 17“Not in sight of the Col di Lana, I am sorry to say,” was the reply. “My health broke down a fortnight before the end, and another officer was in command at the climax. It was o...