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Ambassador Gerard.

THE ASSAULT

Germany Before the Outbreak and
England in War-Time

A Personal Narrative

By
FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE

Author of "Men Around the Kaiser"

ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS AND FACSIMILES OF
DOCUMENTS AND CARTOONS

INDIANAPOLIS
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT 1916
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY

PRESS OF
BRAUNWORTH & CO.
BOOK MANUFACTURERS
BROOKLYN, N. Y.

To
AMBASSADOR AND MRS. GERARD

LIFE-SAVERS

IN GRATITUDE

INTRODUCTION

This is not a "war book." It has not been myprivilege at any stage of the Great Blood-Letting to comeinto close contact with the spectacular clash and din ofthe fray. Abler pens than mine, many of them wieldedby the "neutral" hands of American colleagues, areimmortalizing the terrible, yet irresistibly fascinating,scenes of this most stupendous drama. But everydrama has its scenario and its prologue and itsbehind-the-curtain scenes--none ever written was so rich inthese preliminaries and accessories as is Europe's epic.To have witnessed and lived through some of these wasvouchsafed me; and to take American readers withme down the line of the past year's rec

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