Soldiers of the Legion Author:John Bowe Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: chapter{Section 4FOREWORD Let the fastidious beware! Here is no inviting account of a holiday in France. The fighting author does not apologize for t... more »his terrible tale. He has written literally, unglossed—no glamour, to Help you understand the horrors of War and Prussian dreadfulness. This gripping catalogue of catastrophe is by an American. It contains romance, history—but absolutely no fiction, it is a Love story. "Greater love hath no man than this . . . ." The National Society of Real Americans, in the shadow of Independence Hall, Philadelphia, reminds Us that we have two Countries— United States and France. "Jack" Bowe, in this, his second volume on War, presents a French viewpoint, rather than the British. Cosmopolite, born on the Scotch-English border, he Knows no boundaries in Freedom's cause. He has served in five regiments in France. Wounded and spent, he has been restored in five different hospitals. Evacuated from the front, twice, he has recuperated in England and returned, on furlough, to America, When he received "Certificate of Honor" for promoting the sale of Liberty Bonds. Thrice decorated for distinguished conduct and valor in Europe, He wears, also, three medals from service in the Spanish-American War and in the Philippine Insurrection. He has been marched through countless villages of France whose Names he did not know—nor could he have pronounced them! Indian file, in black night, he has tramped hundreds of miles of Trenches, which he could not have recognized next morning. He has endured twenty days and nights of continuous cannonade. Kxperiencing every sort of military warfare on land, he has also survived a Collision at sea. He has been Mayor of his own home to...« less