Tales from a Famished Land

Tales from a Famished Land - Including The White Island—A Story of the Dardanelles

COPYRIGHT, 1916, 1917, BY THE REPUBLIC PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THE AMERICAN RED CROSS SOCIETY COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THE OUTLOOK COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY P. F. COLLIERS SONS Colliers Weekly, The Outlook, The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Red Cross Magazine have published certain of these tales in serial form, and to them my thanks are due for permission to republish in book form. Herbert Clark Hoover, chairman of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, once called that amazing organization, the door in the wall of steel. Between November, 1914, and March, 1917, when America entered the world war, there had passed through that door millions of dollars in money, thousands of tons of foodstuffs and clothing, and four or five dozen young Americans, most of them just out of their teens, who played a part in Belgian history which they are still trying to explain in words of one syllable to admiring relatives and friends! Theirs is a story of sweet romance, gallant adventure, grotesque comedy, and grim tragedy. The tales which are here set down are a part of their story. These tales are not strictly truth, but they are not fiction. They[x] are both. They try to describe the state of mind, the atmosphere in which Historyboth truth and fictionis made; the atmosphere behind long lines of barbed-wire and bayonets, behind waves of poisoned gas, in a famished land where ten million heroic people, both French and Belgians, have silently and steadily fought to keep their self-respect, their sanity, and their courage. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 49709
Author: Hunt, Edward E. (Edward Eyre)
Release Date: Aug 15, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English