[Multilingual] WWI Centenary (Armistice Day) Prose Collection Vol. III-mas

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First World War Centenary Prose Collection Vol. III.


This project is now complete. All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/ww1-prose-vol-iii/



On July 28, 2014, the LibriVox community commemorated the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War with collections of poetry and prose. This is the third volume of the prose collection and will be cataloged in time for the 100th anniversary of Armistice day, on November 11, 1918.

Deadline for submissions is November 1, 2018

Same guidelines apply as with volumes I and II:
  • All prose pieces, in any language, are welcome, provided that they specifically relate to the First World War. If their duration is longer than 70 minutes, please submit them in two parts.
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    Keywords that describe the book: WWI, First World War, World War One, remembrance
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Suggestions for reading (or a chapter or two from them). All additional suggestions (in any language) will be warmly welcomed.

GERMAN:
Interesting list of German texts (thanks, HP!)
http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Erster_Weltkrieg

ENGLISH:

Not PD for readers in Europe:

Birds and the War by Hugh Steuart Gladstone (b. 1877 - 1949)
https://archive.org/details/birdsandwarglads00gladrich
[commonsparrow3 recorded Birds as Messengers for volume 2]
[ColleenMC recorded ch 7, “Effects of Air-Raids and Aircraft on Birds" for volume 3]


Waiting for Daylight by H. M. Tomlinson (1873 – 1958)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27246
[mhhbook to record section XIV “Authors and Soldiers” for vol. 3]

The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings (1894-1962). More info here: viewtopic.php?p=1175589#p1175589
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8446

The War Book of the German General Staff, being the Usages of War on Land
Prussia (Kingdom). Armee. Grosser Generalstab. Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II;
Translated by J. H. Morgan (John Hartman) (1876-1955)
https://archive.org/details/cu31924005230564

The Dispatch-Riders: The Story of Two British Motor-Cyclists in the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman (1876-1959) and Frank Gillett (1874-1927)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36500

The Amateur Army by Patrick MacGill (1889-1963)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16078

The Soul of a Nation (Armistice Day 1920) by Sir Phillip Gibbs (1877-1962) [recorded for vol. 2]
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41308

Russia in Literature
https://archive.org/stream/currenthistoryfo01newyuoft#page/818/mode/2up
An open letter signed by a few dozen famous English authors (Barrie, Doyle, Wells, etc) on the eve of WWI 1914, addressed to the great writers of Russia.

Off to the Front from At Ypres with Best-Dunkley. [An account of the 2/5th Lancashire Fusiliers under the command of Colonel Best-Dunkley.] by Thomas Hope Floyd (1896-1973). Chapter I Off to the Front would be particularly welcome. Not PD for Canada or Australia either.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17813 Peter (mrwemmick) will read The City and The Trenches and The Battle of Ypres for Vol. 3.

Somme Battle Stories by Capt. A. J. Dawson (1872-1951)
has stand-alone chapters which would be suitable, including The Australian as a Fighter, and A Cool Canadian. https://archive.org/details/cihm_87758 David Wales has recorded Chap. 5 for Vol. I. and has now recorded the whole book as a solo

Letters from a Young Queenslander by Dr. Robert Marshall Allan (1886-1946)
A collection of letters and extracts written by a military physician from South Brisbane practising in France during WWI.
https://archive.org/details/LettersFromAYoungQueenslander
Selection recorded by Elizabby for volume 2

Some soldier poets by Thomas Sturge Moore (1870-1944)
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t20c6772d
Essays on some notable war poets, including some of their work

Carry On: Letters in Wartime, by Lieutenant Coningsby Dawson (1883–1959) (Not PD in Australia either)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14086

The war and the future by John Masefield (1878-1967)
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081594388
A speech and a lecture both given in 1918.

Some war curiosities and the clandestine press in Belgium by Christian Frederick Gauss (1878-1951) (US author, so Rule of the Shorter Term applies where appropriate)
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100008390
Very interesting article about the plight of Belgium during the war

PD for everyone - hurray!

Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, January 8, 1918 speech to Congress which became the basis for peace negotiations.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/wilson14.asp

A war zone gadabout; being the authentic account of four trips to the fighting nations during 1914, '15, '16 by Austin, Walter, 1864-1929
https://archive.org/details/warzonegadaboutb00aust

The Romance of War Inventions by Thomas W. Corbin
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34459

The future of war in its technical, economic, and political relations by Bloch, Jan, 1836-1902; Long, Robert Edward Crozier, 1872-1938
https://archive.org/details/futureofwarinits00blociala

Celebrated spies and famous mysteries of the great war by Barton, George, 1866-1940
https://archive.org/details/celebratedspiesf00bart BettyB will read Chs 8 and 9 "The Mystery of the Turkish Beauty" and "The Romantic Life of the Dutch-Javanese Dancer Who was Shot as a Spy" for Vol 3

The drama of three hundred & sixty-five days : scenes in the Great War by Caine, Hall, Sir, 1853-1931
https://archive.org/details/dramaofthreehund00cainuoft

Women wanted ; the story written in blood red letters on the horizon of the great world war by Daggett, Mabel Potter, 1871-1927
https://archive.org/details/womenwantedstory00daggrich BettyB will read Ch 4 "Women who wear war jewelry" for Vol 3

War babies by Franchot, Annie Wood; Davis, Mary Louise
A children's story.
https://archive.org/details/warbabies00fran

Democracy versus autocracy; a comparative study of governments in the world war by Geiser, Karl Frederick, b. 1869
https://archive.org/details/democracyversusa00geis

The air scout; an American boy's adventures when the big war in Europe began by Kay, Ross
https://archive.org/details/airscoutamerican00kayr

The Horse and the War by Capt. Sidney Galtrey (1878-1935)
https://archive.org/details/horsewar00galtrich

A 1915 pamphlet called Purple cross service for wounded and sick army horses - sad stuff, I'm afraid.
https://archive.org/details/purplecrossservi00purp

Chapter 6 of The Little Book Of The War by Eva March Tappan (1854-1930) juvenile literature
includes the value in war of mules, pigeons, horses and dogs
https://archive.org/details/TheLittleBookOfTheWar
Scott Danneker read Chapter VIII for Volume 2

Men in War by Andreas Latzko (1876 - 1943)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8440

The meaning of the war: life & matter in conflict. ... Henri Bergson (1859-1941)
One speech and one article by the French Nobel laureate philosopher, 1914.
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015008821202

Inter arma; being essays written in time of war by Edmund Gosse (1849-1928)
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t1cj89v3d

French literature of the great war by Albert Schinz (1870-1943)
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b744520
Various articles about poetry, fiction, drama. Not the least interesting in that it mentions various writings that may be suitable for reading in French for this collection.
[Kitty recorded ch 1 Poetry of the War for volume 3]
[ColleenMC recorded ch 7, “Effects of Air-Raids and Aircraft on Birds" for volume 3]


War's dark frame (1917) by Wadsworth Camp (1879-1936)
Shortish stand-alone anecdotes of the War
https://archive.org/details/warsdarkframe00camp

The Appetite of Tyranny: Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian (1915) by G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11605
Philosophical essays on the War

Between St. Dennis and St. George; a sketch of three civilisations (1915) by Ford Madox Ford (as Ford Madox Hueffer) (1873-1939)
Essays on the War
https://archive.org/details/betweenstdenniss00ford

The First World War, 1914-1918 (1920) by Lt. Col. Charles à Court Repington (1858-1925) (ex-colonel acting as a war correspondent)
https://archive.org/details/firstworldwar19101repiuoft

Letters of a Soldier, 1914-1915 by Anon.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17316
Selection read by Beth Thomas for Volume 2

Some of these unchecked for PDness outside US:

Tales from a Famished Land by Edward Eyre Hunt (1885–1953)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/49709/49709-h/49709-h.htm#Page_86
Fourteen stories having their conception in the author's experience serving on the Commission for the Relief of Belgium. Not all are sad, for there is humor even in Belgium, but the greater number are poignant in their exposition of the varied suffering which came with or followed the German army.
[mhhbook recorded Ghosts for volume 2]

The Worn Doorstep by Margaret Pollock Sherwood (1864-1955)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42797
An American woman, whose English lover has been killed in the war, rents a house in a tiny English village and finds some comfort in the people who seek shelter over her worn doorstep, helping her to forget personal losses in the greater tragedy of the Belgian refugees. An unusually charming bit of workmanship cast in the form of a journal.
Selection read by Mary in Arkansas for Volume 2

With the American Submarines by Henry B. Beston (1888 – 1968) in the Atlantic Monthly, 1918? http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.32106018804952?urlappend=%3Bseq=700 Beston was the only American correspondent to travel with the British Grand Fleet and to be aboard an American destroyer during combat engagement and sinking. He also wrote a book about his experiences called Full Speed Ahead (1919) available at https://archive.org/details/fullspeedahead00best.

Shell-shock and other neuropsychiatric problems presented in five hundred and eighty-nine case histories from the War literature, 1914-1918 (1919)
https://archive.org/details/shellshockothern00soutuoft

Internet Archive: 14,000 items in the World War One Documents Collection. Not every one is in the US Public Domain, so one must be careful, but it is a treasure trove of books, pamphlets and articles in many languages on just about every subject relating to the War.

The book of the homeless: (Le livre des sans-foyer) -edited by Edith Wharton. This was a book sold for the benefit of refugees and contains contributions from such illustrious characters as Joseph Conrad, Sarah Bernhardt, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, W. B. Yeats to name but a few. Some in English, some in French, some poetry, some prose. Even a score by Stravinsky!
https://archive.org/details/bookofhomelessle00whar_0

Short pamphlets in the US United War Work Campaign series: [BettyB will read for Vol 3]
Victory Girls https://archive.org/details/victorygirls00unit
Victory Boys https://archive.org/details/victoryboys00unit
The campaign among students: https://archive.org/details/campaignamongstu00unit

A Call from Gallipoli by Cecilia Nesbit (1915), described as a prose poem. The writer was Australian, but unfortunately neither I nor the National Library of Australia can find her date of death.
https://archive.org/details/callfromgallipol00nesb

The Groningen Camp Magazine: During October 1914, over 1500 troops from the First Royal Naval Brigade were interned in Groningen, Holland, for the duration of World War I.
http://www.groningencamp.co.uk/index.html

Similarly Ruhleben internment camp was a civilian detention camp during World War I located to the west of Berlin.
https://archive.org/search.php?query=ruhleben%20camp%20magazine%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts

Articles from Australian newspapers:
Making an Army: A Look Round the Camps
How Our Soldier Lads Break the Monotony
The First Force: End of the Voyage
Give It Now
The Transports. A Great Fleet

Much in Punch magazine: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=punch+1914

New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 1, No. 1 by Various 'from the beginning to ' March 1915
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13635 ; other numbers in this series from the NY Times are here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=new+york+times+current+history&sort_order=title
[unread pages to read Open Letter to President Wilson by George Bernard Shaw for vol 3]

Many original documents either originally in German or translated into German in:
Die Europäischen Kriegsverhandlung: die maßgebenden Dokumente chronologisch und sinngemäß zusammengestellt ubersetzt und erläutert.
https://archive.org/details/dasregenbogenbuc01beer

Many documents in that book can be found in English or translated into English in The Times documentary history of the war (1917), including The British Blue Book: Great Britain and the European Crisis
https://archive.org/details/timesdocumentary01londuoft

WWI aviation:

Winged Warfare: Hunting the Huns in the Air
https://archive.org/details/wingedwarfarehun00bish

War Flying
https://archive.org/details/warflying00hutc

WWI naval:
https://archive.org/details/doverpatrol01bacogoog
The Dover Patrol 1915-1917 by Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon (1863–1947)

With the American Submarines by Henry B. Beston (1888 – 1968) in the Atlantic Monthly, 1918? http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.32106018804952?urlappend=%3Bseq=700 (US author, so Rule of the Shorter Term applies where appropriate)

Several links at archive.org to texts regarding The Battle of Jutland
https://archive.org/search.php?query=battle%20of%20jutland%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts

Various types of warfare:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32570/32570-h/32570-h.htm
Zeppelin: The Story of a Great Achievement, by Harry Vissering
Has a few references to WWI.

Pen Pictures of British Battles
https://archive.org/stream/penpicturesofbri00londiala#page/n0/mode/2up
Warfare Under Water and The Moonlight Battle for Baghdad recorded by MaryAnn for Vol. I.

The Australian as a Fighter, and A Cool Canadian from Somme Battle Stories: https://archive.org/details/cihm_87758

Best Stories of the 1914 European War
https://archive.org/details/beststoriesof19100newy

Tanks in the Great War 1914-1918
https://archive.org/details/cu31924027835168

The War in Africa 1914-1917, and in the Far East 1914
https://archive.org/details/warinafrica1914100onei

General/political etc
My Mission to London 1912-1914 by Prince Lichnowsky, Late German Ambassador in Great Britain
https://archive.org/details/mymissiontolondo00lichuoft

A War-Time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes
https://archive.org/details/awartimejournalg23533gut

The War of 1914 – The Crime of the Century
https://archive.org/details/jstor-20667056

Questions of American Neutrality During the European War 1914-1915
https://archive.org/details/questionsofameri00maha

The War and the Churches (1915)
https://archive.org/details/warandchurches00mccauoft
Preface and Ch. 3 recorded by filp for volume 2

Abstracts of War Surgery…
https://archive.org/details/abstractsofwarsu00unit
(Early Care of Gunshot Wounds of the Jaws and Surrounding Soft Parts recorded by MaryAnn in Vol. I)

Inventions of the Great War by A. Russell (Alexander Russell) Bond (1876-?)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45269
MaryAnn read Chapter 11 for Volume 2

How I Filmed the War by Geoffrey H. Malins (1887 - 1943)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30285

The Glory of the Coming - What Mine Eyes Have Seen of Americans in Action in This Year of Grace and Allied Endeavor (1918) By Irvin S. Cobb (1876-1944)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44225
Chapters 15-16 recorded by Mary in Arkansas for Volume 2

On the Edge of the Storm by Shepherd Knapp (1873 - 1946) reminiscences of a year in France during the War
https://archive.org/details/onedgestormstor00knapgoog

Post-war writings:

Rebuilding Britain: A Survey of Problems of Reconstruction after the World War by Sir Alfred Hopkinson (1851-1939)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14870


See also for ideas:

http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/en/explore
Check for PDness. Some are copyrighted.

Music and popular culture in the First World War:
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_World_War_I and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_in_popular_culture

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Would love to start this great project off with the Victory Boys and Girls pamphlets.
Thank you for the vast amount of work you put into this!

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Thanks for kicking off the project Betty!

Setting this up has been a team effort, with most of the work done by others! :wink:

MaryAnn

Summary of Summaries:
1. Boys and Girls Victory Pamphlets: A set of pamphlets released by the United War Work Campaign near the end of the First World War to encourage boys and girls to join the Earn and Give Division and by "sacrifice" and hard work encourage them to pledge $5.00 towards a goal of more than $170 million dollars to make life more comfortable and enjoyable for the troops.

2. Open Letter to President Wilson by George Bernard Shaw: The famous playwright and socialist addresses a plea to the POTUS of the time to express condemnation of the warring parties Germany and England for conducting their battles on the territory of the hapless neutral state, Belgium.

3. "Nos amis d'Amérique", in Quelques aspects du vertige mondial by Pierre Loti: As war rages on in Europe, French writer and retired naval officer Pierre Loti pays tribute to US architect Whitney Warren and more generally to those American citizens who, despite their country's neutrality at that stage, did their best to support the Allies and document what was going on on the Western front.

4. Women Wanted by Mabel Potter Daggett, Ch 4 ''Women Who Wear War Jewelry'': Fascinating true stories of everyday and titled women who left their husbands and children to serve at or near the front during the war. These women's names are virtually unknown in history books but, in fact, many of them received the highest military honors their countries could bestow, including the Croix de Guerre.

5. Lettere di Giulio Cozzi in Lettere e testimonianze dei ferrovieri caduti per la patria: Hundreds of Italian railway workers had time to tell their loved ones about life on the front before being killed in battle. Giulio Cozzi is just one of them. He was one of the 10,000 to 13,000 Italian casualties at the infamous Battle of Caporetto.

6-7. A Diary Without Dates by Enid Bagnold, Part 3 "The Boys": In her first book, A Diary Without Dates, published in 1918, Enid Bagnold drew upon her experiences as a civilian volunteer in Woolwich Hospital during the First World War. In a highly personal, almost stream-of-consciousness style, she offered fragments similar to prose poems, without attempting to place them in a traditionally chronological narrative. These sketches of life in a wartime military hospital combine vivid snapshots of daily life with deeper reflections on human vulnerability to pain, fear, death, and loneliness. Bagnold went on to a long and successful writing career, remembered as the author of National Velvet and The Chalk Garden.

8. Celebrated Spies and Famous Mysteries of the Great War by George Barton, Ch 8 '"The Mystery of the Turkish Beauty": A tale of espionage and intrigue with a female spy hiding behind many names and in many places. Sending secrets she learns in the United States back to Germany, she was apprehended but never charged or incarcerated. How was she able to avoid being put in prison?

9. Celebrated Spies and Famous Mysteries of the Great War by George Barton, Ch 9 '"The Romantic Life of the Dutch-Javanese Dancer Who was Shot as a Spy": The humble beginnings and tragic ending of one of the world's most famous female spies, Marguerite Gertrude Zelle, or as more widely known, Mata Hari.

10. Waiting for Daylight by H. M. Tomlinson, Sec XIV, ''Authors and Soldiers'': Henry Major Tomlinson (21 June 1873 – 5 February 1958) was a British writer and journalist. He was known for anti-war and travel writing, novels and short stories, especially of life at sea. In World War I he was an official correspondent for the British Army, in France. In 1917 he returned to work with H. W. Massingham on The Nation, which opposed the war. His book of essays, “Waiting for Daylight” was published in 1922.

11. Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of The Halifax Disaster by ____, Chapter 1: "About midway in the last two years of war—to be exact December, 1917,—a French munitioner heavily laden with trinitrotoluol, the most powerful of known explosives, reached Halifax from New York. On the early morning of the sixth of that month, she was proceeding under her own steam up the harbor-length toward anchorage in the basin—an oval expansion half-hidden by a blunt hill called Turple Head. Suddenly an empty Belgian relief ship swept through the Narrows directly in her pathway. There was a confusion of signals; a few agonized manoeuvers. The vessels collided; and the shock of their colliding shook the world!”

From the reader: "I first heard about the Halifax disaster thanks to a book blog by fellow LibriVoxer, Maria Kasper (commonsparrow3) In her list of books read in 2015, Maria mentions “Curse of the Narrows”, a non-fiction account of the disaster. The story of the disaster was fascinating and fit the category of material pertaining to World War I, although the explosion was not a deliberate act of war. I did a few recordings for the first and second prose volumes on World War I, but forgot about this incident until the third volume. I did a search on Gutenberg for “Halifax” and found “Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster.” This recording is the first chapter of that book."

12. Birds and the War by Hugh S Gladstone, Chapter 7, ''“Effects of Air-Raids and Aircraft on Birds'': In this chapter, Hugh Gladstone looks at the variety of reactions (or lack thereof) that English birds had to the presence of aircraft in general, and the several air raids by zeppelin and airplane in the later years of the war.

13. Wir Toten auf Urlaub by Kurt Eisner

14. Kurze Aufklärungen über Wesen und Ziel des Pazifismus by Alfred H. Fried Austrian, Preface & Ch 1: Nobel Peace Prize winner and co-publisher of several of Bertha von Suttner works, Dr. H. C. Alfred H. Fried, answers some short-sighted and prejudiced accusations of opponents of the peace movement. He wants to keep the discussion on a factual basis and in this excerpt, explains and defines peace, the absence of war, and pacifism.

15. "Poetry of the War", Chapter 1 of Part 2 from "French Literature of the Great War" by Albert Schinz. An overview of French and Belgian poets writing war poetry about and during the First World War, with a selection of some of their best poems recited in the original French. Includes excerpts from poems by Verhaeren, Péguy, Rostand, Dérieux, Leclerc, Mercier and Gregh, among others.

16. The Care of the Dead by Anonymous: This pamphet, printed in Great Britain in 1916, explains how British and French groups such as the “Army’s Graves Registration Unit” and others worked together to record data on soldiers killed in battle. People with these groups made sure that each grave was appropriately identified and cared for, and that friends and survivors were comforted knowing that loved ones were remembered with dignity and respect.

17-18. "Soldiers, Sailors, and Books" by the American Library Association, (War Service Committee). The American Library Association (ALA) was founded in 1876, and is the oldest and largest library association in the world. In 1917, as the U.S. mobilized for the First World War, the ALA organized its War Service Committee, with the goal of providing reading materials to the men being sent to war. This booklet details the organization's efforts to set up libraries in camps, aboard ships, in hospitals, and anywhere else the men were sent, even within the war zone itself. The booklet was published as part of a fundraiser in November 1917 for the United War Work Campaign, a joint effort by seven civilian organizations involved in service to the troops.

19. Little Rays of Moonshine by A. P. Herbert, ''Five Inches''. Although written in 1920, two years after the end of the First World War, the essay “Five Inches” from A. P. Herbert’s book “Little Rays of Moonshine” refers to the veterans of that war who lost limbs in battle. Herbert himself had first-hand knowledge of the war. He joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve at the outbreak of the War, later serving as an officer with the Royal Naval Division. He fought in the Gallipoli campaign and on the Western Front, becoming his battalion's adjutant in 1917, after which he was injured and did not return to the front line before the end of the war.

20. ''Militant Pacificism'' by Mary Whiton Calkins. "The one thing which unites the world to-day is the desire for the end of the Great War." A psychological essay about pugnacity.

21. ''Program for World Peace; The Fourteen Points'' by Woodrow Wilson, 8 January 1918

22. ''America's Purpose; International Justice and World Peace'' by Woodrow Wilson, New York, 27 September 1918

23. ''The Fourth of August--Europe at War,'' by H. G. Wells

24. ''Declares for War'' by Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg

25. De Wapenstilstand Geteekend: On 11 November, 1918, the First World War ended. This newspaper article from a Dutch newspaper on that day brings the hopeful tidings that the war might be over, although it is filled with uncertainty of what the future will bring. The uncertainty of how Germany will deal with the terms of the ceasefire agreement, and whether the new German government will be strong enough to help the German people overcome the heavy blow they've been dealt, features strongly in this article.

26. Introduction to The Book of the Homeless by Theodore Roosevelt. Introduction to an anthology compiled for a charity assisting those displaced by the War in Europe. An invocation from President Roosevelt imploring Americans to assist refugees in crisis.

27. ''Internationalism'' from War, Peace, and the Future by Ellen Key. Internationalism is the path away from the cycle of war, and the natural direction for the human race.

28. ''Nationalism and Patriotism'' from War, Peace, and the Future by Ellen Key. We must reject nationalism in favor of patriotism, which emphasizes pride in a home country's cultural contribution to the international Human race over nationalism's blind jingoism and warmongering.

29. ''Russia in Literature'' by British Men of Letters, 23 December 1914. An open letter signed by a few dozen famous English authors (Barrie, Doyle, Wells, etc) on the eve of WWI 1914, addressed to the great writers of Russia.

30. ''The Victory'' from A Politica, 15 Novembro 1918

31. Democracy versus Autocracy by Karl Frederick Geiser, Chapters 1-4

32. ''Shall We End War?'' by Harry Emerson Fosdick, 5 June 1921. Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) was an American Protestant minister. He served as an Army chaplain in France during the First World War. After the war, he spoke out about the horror of modern war and its incompatibility with Christianity. This sermon “Shall We End War?” was delivered on June 5, 1921, at the First Presbyterian Church in New York City.

33. ''Probleme der Friedenswirtschaft'' from Gesammelte Schriften, Band 5 by Walther Rathenau

34. Extract from Gallipoli by John Masefield. Masefield's book describes the unsuccessful 1915 allied campaign against the Ottomans, its object being to gain control of the Dardenelles - the shipping route to Russia. The extract concerns the digging of trenches for concealment and protection for those attacking the heights of the Gallipoli Peninsula. The soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) came to be known as “Diggers”.

35. “I Am Not Dead” from Experiences of the Great War by Ashby Williams. Ashby Williams was a 44 year old lawyer from Virginia who led the U.S. Army’s First Battalion, 320th Infantry Division in the Muse-Argonne Campaign of the First World War. It was during this battle, the deadliest in U.S. History, that Major Williams “had perhaps the narrowest escape of [his] life.”


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Would you like two separate sections for the two pamphlets? And author as unknown? Seems to be a government publication.

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BettyB wrote:Would you like two separate sections for the two pamphlets? And author as unknown? Seems to be a government publication.

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Betty,

I did a little research on the United War Work Campaign when you claimed these, and seeing that it was a whole big project, for which they were raising funds, I was thinking that "The United War Work Campaign" could be the author.

As to one vs two sections, I haven't read them. It looked like there were three pamphlets in a row (boys, girls and students), so two or more of them could be grouped unless that made the section too long. Does that make sense when you look at the content? If it does flow ok with the content, then I think grouping them may be better than having separate sections for each.

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https://librivox.org/uploads/maryannspiegel/wwi3_boysgirlsvictorypamphlets_unitedwarwork_bs_128kb.mp3

Time is 26:39

A set of pamphlets released by the United War Work Campaign near the end of the First World War to encourage boys and girls to join the Earn and Give Division and by "sacrifice" and hard work encourage them to pledge $5.00 towards a goal of more than $170 million dollars to make life more comfortable and enjoyable for the troops.

Betty

Will be back after vacation to record another section. Great choice..
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Thank you Betty. On my list to PL after Crisco (and we'll just let the world wonder what that little inside joke refers to . . . )
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There is a Collection entitled The New York Times Current History - A Monthly Magazine: The European War, published 1915, available here
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13635/13635-h/13635-h.htm#page76
From this I would like to contribute Open Letter to President Wilson by George Bernard Shaw. Summary as follows:
The famous playwright and socialist addresses a plea to the POTUS of the time to express condemnation of the warring parties Germany and England for conducting their battles on the territory of the hapless neutral state, Belgium.
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That sounds great Peter. Thank you for contributing.

I need to find something to read myself, and the NYTimes books seem like a good place to go looking. Lot of interesting articles in there.

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Thank you Peter. I'll PL shortly.
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Betty,
Victory Girls and Boys is PL OK.
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Hi there! :)

I'd like to contribute a brief piece by French writer Pierre Loti entitled "Nos amis d'Amérique" (literally Our Friends from America). Definitely not one of his most memorable works but clearly a product of its time—the time being January 1917.

*Author: Pierre Loti
*Title: "Nos amis d'Amérique", in Quelques aspects du vertige mondial
*Date: 1917
*Language: French
*Link to text: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31918/31918-h/31918-h.htm#NOS_AMIS_DAMERIQUE
*Summary: As war rages on in Europe, French writer and retired naval officer Pierre Loti pays tribute to US architect Whitney Warren and more generally to those American citizens who, despite their country's neutrality at that stage, did their best to support the Allies and document what was going on on the Western front.
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BeniaminoMassimo wrote: *Author: Pierre Loti
*Title: "Nos amis d'Amérique", in Quelques aspects du vertige mondial
*Date: 1917
*Language: French
*Link to text: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31918/31918-h/31918-h.htm#NOS_AMIS_DAMERIQUE
*Summary: As war rages on in Europe, French writer and retired naval officer Pierre Loti pays tribute to US architect Whitney Warren and more generally to those American citizens who, despite their country's neutrality at that stage, did their best to support the Allies and document what was going on on the Western front.
*Link to the mp3 file: https://librivox.org/uploads/maryannspiegel/wwi3_amisdamerique_loti_bm_128kb.mp3
*Duration: 6:58

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