The A. E. F.: With General Pershing and the American Forces

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Heywood Hale Broun. The A. E. F.: With General Pershing and the American Forces

CHAPTER I. THE BIG POND

CHAPTER II. THE A. E. F

CHAPTER III. LAFAYETTE, NOUS VOILÀ

CHAPTER IV. THE FRANCO-AMERICAN HONEYMOON

CHAPTER V. WITHIN SOUND OF THE GUNS

CHAPTER VI. SUNNY FRANCE

CHAPTER VII. PERSHING

CHAPTER VIII. MEN WITH MEDALS

CHAPTER IX. LETTERS HOME

CHAPTER X. MARINES

CHAPTER XI. FIELD PIECES AND BIG GUNS

CHAPTER XII. OUR AVIATORS AND A FEW OTHERS

CHAPTER XIII. HOSPITALS AND ENGINEERS

CHAPTER XIV. WE VISIT THE FRENCH ARMY

CHAPTER XV. VERDUN

CHAPTER XVI. WE VISIT THE BRITISH ARMY

CHAPTER XVII. BACK FROM PRISON

CHAPTER XVIII. FINISHING TOUCHES

CHAPTER XIX. THE AMERICAN ARMY MARCHES TO THE TRENCHES

CHAPTER XX. TRENCH LIFE

CHAPTER XXI. THE VETERANS RETURN

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Some of the material in this book is reprinted through the courtesy of the New York Tribune.

A cheer followed this shot. No Yale eleven, or even Harvard for that matter, ever heard such a cheer. It was as if the shout for the first touchdown and for the last one and for all the field goals and long gains had been thrown into one. There was something in the cheer, too, of a long drawn "ho-old 'em."

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It was the meanest and most inappropriate sound I ever heard. It was an anti-climax of the most vicious sort. It was bad form, bad art, bad everything. I felt a little sick, and one of the contributing emotions was a sort of fearfully poignant boredom. I tried to remember just what the law of averages was and to compute as rapidly as possible the chances of the vessel to complete two more days of travel if attacked by a submarine every hour.

"The ocean is full of the damn things," said the man at the next table petulantly.

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