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The Glory of The Coming - What Mine Eyes have seen of Americans in Action in this Year Of Grace and Allied Endeavor by Irvin S. CobbThis book is made up of articles written abroad in the spring and summer of 1918 and cabled or mailed back for publication at home. For convenience in arrangement, a few of these papers have been broken up into sectional subdivisions with new chapter headings inserted; otherwise the matter is here presented practically in its original form.It has been given to the writer to behold widely dissimilar aspects of the Great War. As a neutral observer, hailing from a neutral country, I was a witness, in Belgium, in northern France, in Germany and in England, to some of its first stages. That was back in 1914 when I was for awhile with the British, then for a period with the Belgian forces afield, then for a much longer period with the German armies and finally with the British again. I was of like mind then with all my professional brethren serving publications in non-belligerent countries, excepting one or two or three of a more discerning vision than the rest. Behind the perfection of the German fighting machine I did not see the hideous malignant brutality which was there.In the first half of this present year, as a partisan on the side of my country and its federated associates, I visited England and for a space of months travelled about over France, with two incursions into that small corner of Flanders which at this time remained in the hands of the Allies.I have seen the Glory of the Coming. I have watched the American Expeditionary Force grow from a small thing into a mighty thing—the mightiest thing, I veritably believe, that since conscious time began, has been undertaken by a free people entering upon a war on foreign shores with nothing personally to gain except a principle, with nothing to maintain except honour, with nothing to keep except their national self-respect. In this war our only spoils out of the victory will be the establishment of the rights of other peoples to rule themselves, our only territorial enlargements will be the graves where our fallen dead sleep on alien soil, our only tangible reward for all that we are giving in blood and treasure and effort and self-denial, will be the knowledge that in a world crisis, when the liberties of the world were imperilled, we, as a world-power and as perhaps the most conspicuous example in the world, of a democracy, did our duty by ourselves, by our republican neighbours overseas and by our children and their children and their children's children.

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This book is made up of articles written abroad in the spring and summer of 1918 and cabled or mailed back for publication at home. It has been given to the writer to behold widely dissimilar aspects of the Great War. As a neutral observer, hailing from a neutral country, I was a witness, in Belgium, in northern France, in Germany and in England, to some of its first stages. That was back in 1914 when I was for awhile with the British, then for a period with the Belgian forces afield, then for a much longer period with the German armies and finally with the British again. I was of like mind then with all my professional brethren serving publications in non-belligerent countries, excepting one or two or three of a more discerning vision than the rest. Behind the perfection of the German fighting machine I did not see the hideous malignant brutality which was there. In the first half of this present year, as a partisan on the side of my country and its federated associates, I visited England and for a space of months travelled about over France, with two incursions into that small corner of Flanders which at this time remained in the hands of the Allies. I have seen the Glory of the Coming. I have watched the American Expeditionary Force grow from a small thing into a mighty thing—the mightiest thing, I veritably believe, that since conscious time began, has been undertaken by a free people entering upon a war on foreign shores with nothing personally to gain except a principle, with nothing to maintain except honour, with nothing to keep except their national self-respect. In this war our only spoils out of the victory will be the establishment of the rights of other peoples to rule themselves, our only territorial enlargements will be the graves where our fallen dead sleep on alien soil, our only tangible reward for all that we are giving in blood and treasure and effort and self-denial, will be the knowledge that in a world crisis, when the liberties of the world were imperilled, we, as a world-power and as perhaps the most conspicuous example in the world, of a democracy, did our duty by ourselves, by our republican neighbours overseas and by our children and their children and their children's children.

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"Some of the best correspondence which our side has produced." -The Bookman "Eyewitness accounts, graphically told, of American soldiers' heroism and devotion." -The World's Work "Vivid, often humorous sketches reprinted from magazines, describing what the author saw, chiefly among the American troops in France." -New York Public Library Legislative Documents "A collection of articles written abroad in the spring and summer of 1918 and cabled or mailed back for publication in periodicals at home. The author was an eye witness of the great war in all its stages, but this volume recounts principally the arrival of the American Expeditionary Forces, from its first few struggling troops to the mighty army that we eventually had in France." -Country Life in the War "The genius of Mr. Cobb for depicting human nature finds worthy object in his story of the brave fighters on the Allied side in the Great War, especially in his understanding narrative of the glorious coming of America, first as a few lines of soldiers, and gradually becoming a tremendous military force. During most of the war period Mr. Cobb was at the front, and for a time behind the enemy lines as an 'involuntary guest' of the Germans." -The Christian Century "Irwin Cobb's war writing is, as might be expected, sparklingly bright, and more illuminating as to the spirit with which the men go at things over there than regarding cold facts and figures. 'The Glory of the Coming' recounts Cobb's adventures during 1918, principally with the American forces, but includes eyewitness accounts of the sinking of the Tuscania; London under serial bombardment; Paris bombarded by the big bertha; and the spirit of the British soldiers under the great German attack in March, 1918." -The Interior "News from the front, which though now old and reprinted from magazines, is still new enough in spirit to live through the blow dealt this kind of reporting by the armistice. The author has seen real fighting, and many other things, humorous and pathetic. Very interesting chapters on the sinking of the Tuscania, a fool-proof war...and the workings of the supply department." -The Booklist "Irwin S. Cobb, who found himself many times in the neighborhood of heavy artillery, tells in 'The Glory of the Coming' of the tremendous respect he had for a French battery of nine-inch heavies: 'Every time that one of the nine-inchers spewed its bellyful of high explosives forth, the sound of it dominated and overmastered all other sounds. First there was a crash - a crash so great that our inadequate tongue yields neither adjective nor noun fitly to comprehend it, the trouble being that the language has not kept step with the developments of artillery in this war. Our dictionary is going to need an overhauling when this job of licking Germany is finished.' Cobb's name is among the nominations to the Legion of Honor." -Publishers Weekly