military system that ordered the slow sapping of friendly
neighboring powers.

Only the host of "tourists," clerks, waiters, gentlemanly officers, that
betrayed the hospitality of people of good will.

Only an army that practised mutilation and murder on children, and
mothers, and old people,--and that carried it through coldly,
systematically, with admirable discipline.

I believe there are multitudes of common soldiers who are sorry that
they have outraged the helpless.

An army of half a million men will return to the home-land with very
bitter memories. Many a simple German of this generation will be unable
to look into the face of his own child without remembering some tiny
peasant face of pain--the child whom he bayoneted, or whom he saw his
comrade bayonet, having failed to put his body between the little one
and death.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE CONQUERORS

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THE SPY 3
THE ATROCITY 26
BALLAD OF THE GERMANS 45
THE STEAM ROLLER 48
MY EXPERIENCE WITH BAEDEKER 66

GOLDEN LADS

THE PLAY-BOYS OF BRITTANY 79
"ENCHANTED CIGARETTES" 95
WAS IT REAL? 113
"CHANTONS, BELGES! CHANTONS!" 127
FLIES: A FANTASY 152
WOMEN UNDER FIRE 168
HOW WAR SEEMS TO A WOMAN 192
LES TRAVAILLEURS DE LA GUERRE 234
REMAKING FRANCE 253

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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The Play-boys of the Western Front _Frontispiece_

Peasants' cottages burned by Germans 8

The home of a German spy near Coxyde Bains, Belgium 13

The green pass, used only by soldiers and officers of the
Belgian Army 33