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Broun Heywood. Our Army at the Front
Our Army at the Front
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ILLUSTRATIONS
OUR ARMY AT THE FRONT
CHAPTER I. THE LANDING OF PERSHING
CHAPTER II "VIVE PAIR-SHANG!"
CHAPTER III. THE FIRST DIVISION LANDS
CHAPTER IV. THE FOURTH OF JULY
CHAPTER V. WHAT THEY LIVED IN
CHAPTER VI. GETTING THEIR STRIDE
CHAPTER VII. SPEEDING UP
CHAPTER VIII. BACK WITH THE BIG GUNS
CHAPTER IX. THE EYES OF THE ARMY
CHAPTER X. THE SCHOOLS FOR OFFICERS
CHAPTER XI. SOME DISTINGUISHED VISITORS
CHAPTER XII. THE MEN WHO DID EVERYTHING
CHAPTER XIII. BEHIND THE LINES
CHAPTER XIV. FRANCE AND THE MEDICOES
CHAPTER XV. IN CHARGE OF MORALE
CHAPTER XVI. INTO THE TRENCHES
CHAPTER XVII. OUR OWN SECTOR
CHAPTER XVIII. A CIVILIAN VISITOR
CHAPTER XIX. A FAMOUS GESTURE
CHAPTER XX. THE FIRST TWO BATTLES
CHAPTER XXI. TEUFEL-HUNDEN
CHAPTER XXII. THE ARMY OF MANŒUVRE
CHAPTER XXIII. ST. MIHIEL
CHAPTER XXIV. MEUSE-ARGONNE BEGINS
CHAPTER XXV. CEASE FIRING
GENERAL PERSHING'S REPORT
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Heywood Broun
Published by Good Press, 2019
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"The Kaiser had given us but a few weeks in which to realize that the success of his submarine campaign would impose the silence of terror on the human conscience throughout the world. Well, painful as he must find it, Pershing's arrival, with its consequent military action, cannot fail to prove to him that, after all, the moral forces he ignored must always be taken into account in forecasting human probabilities. Those learned Boches have yet to understand that in the course of his intellectual evolution, man has achieved the setting of moral right above brute force; that might is taking its stand beside right, to accomplish the greatest revolution in the history of mankind. That is the lesson which Pershing's coming has taught us, and that is why we rejoice."
But even while the commentators were at their task General Pershing had left off celebrating and got to work. The First Division was on the seas.
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