Identifier: peopleswarbookhi00mill (find matches)
Title: The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, J. Martin (James Martin), b. 1859 Canfield, Harry S. (from old catalog), joint author Plewman, William Rothwell, 1880- (from old catalog) Foch, Ferdinand, 1851-1929 Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945 United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Cleveland, O., The R.C. Barnum co. Detroit, Mich., The F.B. Dickerson co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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u u fL, O in 258 IHK PEOPT.ES WAR BOOK tions, the marines met and defeated the best di-visions that Germany could throw into the line.The heroism and doggedness of that battle are un-paralleled. Time after time, officers seeing their linescut to pieces, seeing their men so dog tired thatthey even fell asleep under shell fire, hearing theirwounded calling for the water that they were un-able to supply, seeing men fight on offer they hadbeen wounded and until they dropped unconscious—time after time, officers seeing these thingsbelieving that the very limit of human endurancehad been reached, would send back messages to theirpost command that their men were exhausted. Butin answer to this would come the word that thelines must hold, and if possible those lines must at-tack. And the lines obeyed. Without water, with-out food, without rest, they went forward—and for-ward every time to victory. Companies had been sotorn and lacerated by losses that they were hardlyplatoons; but they he

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