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A FOREWORD
PASSED BY THE CENSOR
NOTE
A New York Times reporter finds himself thrust from the bustling press rooms of Paris into the very heart of the Great War. Denied entry at the outset, he is briefly imprisoned, then volunteers as a Red‑Cross orderly, gathering vivid notes from the front lines. When finally accredited, his dispatches become some of the first uncensored American eyes on the French army after the Marne, offering a rare, on‑the‑ground view of the battlefields that few foreign journalists have seen.
Through courtroom drama, frantic market rumors, and the relentless churn of trench warfare, the narrative captures the daily tension between reportage and military control. Readers travel alongside the correspondent as he navigates the maze of French offensives, witnesses the grim realities of the front, and struggles to convey the truth within the tight limits imposed by wartime censors. The account provides a compelling snapshot of a journalist’s perseverance amid the chaos of early 1915 Europe.
Language
en
Duration
~5 hours (297K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
United States: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1916.
Credits
Graeme Mackreth and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Release date
2022-09-11
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1881–1956
A globe-trotting journalist turned his frontline reporting into vivid books about war, politics, and the shifting balance of power in Europe. His work brings the tension of the early twentieth century close enough to feel immediate.
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