This volume should be of even greater interest to American children than the first, for it tells the story of America's greatest achievement, of a nation undertaking a tremendous and terrible task not for material gain, but for an ideal.
No more inspiring story has ever been told to the children of men than the story of America's part in winning the greatest cause for which men have ever contended. President Wilson said in Europe, "The American soldiers came not merely to win a war, but to win a cause." Every child in every home and in every school should be made familiar with how it was won, and with the separate stories which go to make up the glorious epic.
The two volumes of the series give for children, in a way that they will comprehend and enjoy, through stories so selected and so connected as to build up an understanding of the whole, the causes, the conduct, and the results of the World War.
The thanks of the authors and publishers are hereby expressed to Mr. Edwin Rowland Blashfield for the permission to reproduce his poster, "Carry On"; to Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox for "Song of the Aviator"; to George H. Doran Company, Publishers, for "Pershing at the Tomb of Lafayette" from "The Silver Trumpet," by Amelia Josephine Burr, copyright 1918; for "Where Are You Going, Great-Heart?" from "The Vision Splendid" by John Oxenham, copyright 1918; for "Trees" from "Trees and Other Poems" by Joyce Kilmer, copyright 1914; to _Collier's_ for Lieutenant McKeogh's story of "The Lost Battalion"; to Mr. Roger William Riis for his article "The Secret Service"; and to Mr. John Mackenzie, Chief Boatswain's Mate, U. S. S. _Remlik_, for the facts in the story, "Fighting a Depth Bomb."
1. WHY THE UNITED STATES ENTERED THE WAR 2. AMERICA COMES IN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ._Klaxton_ 3. PERSHING AT THE TOMB OF LAFAYETTE . . . . _Amelia Josephine Burr_ 4. AMERICA ENTERS THE WAR . . . . . . . . . . . _David Lloyd George_ 5. THE FIRST TO FALL IN BATTLE 6. FOUR SOLDIERS 7. WHERE THE FOUR WINDS MEET . . . . . . . _Geoffrey Dalrymple Nash_ 8. THE SOLDIERS WHO GO TO SEA 9. WHEN THE TIDE TURNED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Otto H. Kahn_ 10. A BOY OF PERUGIA 11. REDEEMED ITALY 12. SONG OF THE AVIATOR . . . . . . . . . . . . _Ella Wheeler Wilcox_ 13. NATIONS BORN AND REBORN 14. "TO VILLINGEN--AND BACK" 15. ALSACE-LORRAINE 16. THE CALL TO ARMS IN OUR STREET . . . . . . . . . . _W. M. Letts_ 17. THE KAISER'S CROWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Charles Mackay_ 18. THE QUALITY OF MERCY 19. THE REALLY INVINCIBLE ARMADA 20. "I KNEW YOU WOULD COME" . . . . . . _Rev. Ernest M. Stires, D.D._ 21. THE SEARCHLIGHTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Alfred Noyes_ 22. FIGHTING A DEPTH BOMB 23. THE SECOND LINE OF DEFENSE 24. U. S. DESTROYER OSMOND C. INGRAM 25. JOYCE KILMER 26. BLOCKING THE CHANNEL 27. THE FLEET THAT LOST ITS SOUL 28. THE LITTLE OLD ROAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Gertrude Vaughan_ 29. HARRY LAUDER SINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Dr. George Adams_ 30. THE THIRTEENTH REGIMENT 31. WHERE ARE YOU GOING, GREAT-HEART? . . . . . . . . . _John Oxenham_ 32. THIS CAPTURE OF DUN 33. BOMBING METZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Raoul Lufbery_ 34. THE UNSPEAKABLE TURK 35. THE SECRET SERVICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Roger William Riis_ 36. AT THE FRONT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _G. B. Manwaring_ 37. A CAROL FROM FLANDERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Frederick Niven_ 38. THE MINER AND THE TIGER 39. THE LOST BATTALION 40. UNITED STATES DAY 41. NOVEMBER 11, 1918 42. IN MEMORIAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Alfred Tennyson_ 43. THE UNITED STATES AT WAR--IN FRANCE . . _General John J. Pershing_ 44. THE UNITED STATES AT WAR--AT HOME 45. A CONGRESSIONAL MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Woodrow Wilson_ 46. PRESIDENT WILSON IN FRANCE 47. SERGEANT YORK OF TENNESSEE