BY
MALCOLM C. GROW
Formerly Lieut.-Colonel Imperial Russian Army Medical
Corps
NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
1918
FOREWARD | |
I GO TO RUSSIA | |
TWO WEEKS OF SIGHT-SEEING | |
THE HUSSARS HOSPITAL AT TSARSKOESELO | |
PREPARING TO GO TO THE FRONT | |
OFF TO THE FRONT | |
THE SPECTACLE IN THE FROZEN LAKE | |
THE PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS | |
IN THE RUSSIAN TRENCHES | |
I GO "OVER THE TOP" | |
I MEET THE CZAR | |
OVER THE GERMAN LINES | |
THROUGH A SHOWER OF SHELLS | |
THE BATTLE OF POSTOVY | |
THE DOGS OF WAR | |
SOUND SLEEPERS | |
INJURED BY A SHELL | |
THE MEDAL OF ST. GEORGE | |
A DEMONSTRATION ATTACK | |
WE JOIN BRUSILOFF'S BIG DRIVE | |
THE BATTLE OF THE STOCKHOD | |
WE BREAK THROUGH! | |
A BLIND ARMY | |
THE GAS ATTACK | |
THE REVOLUTION | |
AFTER THE REVOLUTION | |
ILLUSTRATIONS | |
Surgeon Grow in a Russian trench | |
Russian troops on their way south to help in Brusiloffs big drive talk with wounded men returning from the fighting | |
Wounded men waiting to be loaded onto the cattle trucks that served as evacuation trains | |
German officers of a regiment of Prussian guards | |
Battle flag of the captured regiment of Prussian guards | |
White gowns were worn by the Russian troops as a camouflage when raiding the German trenches through the wastes of snow | |
One of the first women soldiers | |
Abandoned car of Prince Eitel Friedrich of Germany, being hauled out of the mud by Cossacks who captured it | |
Mid-day during the winter on the Northern front | |
Machine guns mounted on revolving stand for use against enemy aeroplanes | |
German albatross-type aeroplane shot down by the Russian anti-aircraft guns | |
Wounded men arriving in the crude two-wheeled ambulance, the best conveyance known on the Russian front. | |
Surgeon Grow at the battle of Postovy, loading wounded into a little two-wheeled cart which served as ambulance | |
Sanitary dogs, or dogs of war | |
This dog has located a wounded man and is taking his hat as identification and means of bringing aid | |
A dressing station back of the lines at the battle of Postovy | |
Seriously wounded soldier being carried in by stretcher bearers during the demonstration attack | |
Streams of wounded soldiers barely able to walk, reeled along like drunken men through semi-darkness headed for our dressing station.. | |
A dressing station during the battle of Stockhod | |
Type of two-wheeled springless cart that served as ambulance on the Russian front | |
Cossacks charging into a burning village to clean out the Austro-Germans, during the battle of Stockhod | |
"I know that had we not recovered his body I should have been haunted all my life by the vision of that dangling form on the barbed wire. | |
Orderly who rescued a wounded man who lay for five days under the German barbed wire | |
Shot through the lung, this wounded Russian soldier lay for five days under the German barbed wire not 40 feet from their trenches | |
The dead laid in rows after the gas attack | |
Large bomb-proof used as a dressing station and small bombproof in foreground where the author lived during the winter of 1916-1917 | |
Burial of the dead after the gas attack |