The Day of Wrath: A Story of 1914

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Tracy Louis. The Day of Wrath: A Story of 1914

CHAPTER I. THE LAVA-STREAM

CHAPTER II. IN THE VORTEX

CHAPTER III. FIRST BLOOD

CHAPTER IV. THE TRAGEDY OF VISÉ

CHAPTER V. BILLETS

CHAPTER VI. THE FIGHT IN THE MILL

CHAPTER VII. THE WOODMAN’S HUT

CHAPTER VIII. A RESPITE

CHAPTER IX. AN EXPOSITION OF GERMAN METHODS

CHAPTER X. ANDENNE

CHAPTER XI. A TRAMP ACROSS BELGIUM

CHAPTER XII. AT THE GATES OF DEATH

CHAPTER XIII. THE WOODEN HORSE OF TROY

CHAPTER XIV. THE MARNE – AND AFTER

CHAPTER XV “CARRY ON!”

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For God’s sake, if you are an Englishman, help me!”

That cry of despair, so subdued yet piercing in its intensity, reached Arthur Dalroy as he pressed close on the heels of an all-powerful escort in Lieutenant Karl von Halwig, of the Prussian Imperial Guard, at the ticket-barrier of the Friedrich Strasse Station on the night of Monday, 3rd August 1914.

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“This is a war of diplomats,” said Dalroy, resolved to keep a guard on his tongue. “I am quite sure that no one in England wants war.”

“But will England fight if Germany invades Belgium?”

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