Huts in Hell

by Daniel A. Poling

This is a neat old book about World War I, the Great War. The book was published in 1918 by Christian Endeavor World, Boston. The book measures 5 ¼ inches by 7 ½ inches and contains ix, 214 pages. The dust jacket is present and shown below. The dust jacket contains rips and chips along the edges with the top edge being in the worse condition. The red cloth pictorial cover of the book itself shows minor signs of wear, hardly worth mentioning. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The pages show no signs of rips or foxing. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this wonderful 85 year old book itself is very good.


Title Page


Title Page - Verso

Excerpt - Introduction:
This book is a record of my observations in France, where I made a deliberate choice between seeing the American, French, and British fronts casually, or studying the army of the United States carefully; I decided to spend all of my time with the American soldier. I lived with him from the port of entry to the front line, and saw him under every condition of modern warfare.

Since I left him in the trenches of northern France every day has added glorious testimony to the evidence that moved me to write in one of the chapters of this book: “The American soldier is the worthy inheritor of the finest traditions of American arms, a credit to those who bore him, an honor to the nation he represents, and the last and best hope that civilization will not fail in her struggle to establish the might of right.”
End excerpt


Front of dust jacket

Contents:

  1. The Pirate of the Deep
  2. War Capitals of the Allies
  3. Down in Flames
  4. Perishing
  5. Seicheprey
  6. A Dugout Diary
  7. “He’s a Hun, but We’re Americans”
  8. “Gas! Gas! Gas!”
  9. “They Shall Not Pass”
  10. The Greatest Mother in the World
  11. The First Croix de Guerre
  12. The Hymn of Hate
  13. A Maid of Brittany
  14. The Fighting Parson
  15. Three New Graves
  16. A Tale of Two Christians in France
  17. Lloyd George
  18. Worthy of a Great Past
  19. Rum Ration Ruinous
  20. Physically Competent and Morally Fit
  21. Vive la France!


Frontispiece


The German crew and submarine which surrendered to the U.S.S. “Fanning”
This is the first capture at sea of Germans by American forces, an event which will go down into history.


Y.M.C.A. serving soup and hot coffee to wounded men
One hundred yards from the front line.


A gas attack
American soldiers in their trenches wearing gas-masks.


American infantry resting, approaching the front in France


The first American troops to reach Europe marching through London amid the cheers of thousands of our British Allies.



Note: The final illustration shows the back of the dust jacket.

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