Excerpt from The Book Review Digest, Vol. 14: Fourteenth Annual Cumulation; Reviews of 1918 Books; February, 1919 In these short letters are summed up the simple courage of the American at war, to gether with his boyishness, his lack of pose, and his dread of trying to appear heroic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.