Chapter II: Preface: v

CHAPTER
I.--BOYHOOD RECOLLECTIONS 1

II.--SINS OF THE FATHERS 21

III.--OVERSEAS 33

IV.--TRAINING IN FRANCE 48

V.--LIFE IN AN ARMY AREA 66

VI.--EARLY DAYS IN THE TRENCHES 82

VII.--MONTDIDIER 120

VIII.--SOISSONS 162

IX.--ST. MIHIEL AND THE ARGONNE 183

X.--THE LAST BATTLE 201

XI.--UP THE MOSELLE AND INTO CONQUERED GERMANY 217

XII.--AFTERWARDS 234

ILLUSTRATIONS

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LIEUTENANT COLONEL THEODORE ROOSEVELT _Frontispiece_
From a portrait by Levey-Dhurmer

COLONEL ROOSEVELT IN AMERICA TO LIEUTENANT COLONEL
ROOSEVELT IN FRANCE 20

A GROUP OF OFFICERS OF THE 1ST BATTALION, 26TH INFANTRY 24
Haudivillers, April, 1917

BRIGADIER GENERAL FRANK A. PARKER, LIEUTENANT COLONEL
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, AND MRS. ROOSEVELT AT ROMAGNE 38

"CHOW" 58
Drawn by Captain W. J. Aylward, A. E. F., 1918

BEFORE THE OFFENSIVE 78
Drawn by Captain W. J. Aylward, A. E. F.

THE SIGNAL CORPS AT WORK 86
Drawn by Captain Harry E. Townsend, A. E. F.

A TRENCH RAID 130
Drawn by Captain George Harding, A. E. F., Montfaucon

AN AIR RAID 172
Drawn by Captain George Harding, A. E. F. August, 1918

THE RHINE AT COBLENZ 226
Drawn by Captain Ernest Peixotto, A. E. F.

THREE THEODORE ROOSEVELTS 240
Copyright, Walter S. Shinn

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