Empey, Arthur Guy, 1883-1963 / 2008-11-19 00:00:00
EBOOK OVER THE TOP ***
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"OVER THE TOP"
BY
AN AMERICAN SOLDIER WHO WENT
ARTHUR GUY EMPEY
MACHINE GUNNER, SERVING IN FRANCE
TOGETHER WITH
TOMMY'S DICTIONARY OF THE TRENCHES
16 ILLUSTRATIONS AND DIAGRAMS
Twenty-sixth Impression
{Photo: The Author just before Leaving for Home.}
TO
MY MOTHER AND MY SISTER
I have had many good comrades as I have journeyed around the world,
before the mast and in the trenches, but loyal and true as they were,
none have ever done, or could ever do, as much as you have done for
me. So as a little token of my gratitude for your love and sacrifice I
dedicate this book to you.
FOREWORD
During sixteen years of "roughing it," knocking around the world, I
have nibbed against the high and low and have had ample opportunity of
studying, at close range, many different peoples, their ideals,
political and otherwise, their hopes and principles. Through this
elbow rubbing, and not from reading, I have become convinced of the
nobility, truth, and justice of the Allies' cause, and know their
fight to be our fight, because it espouses the principles of the
United States of America, democracy, justice, and liberty.
To the average American who has not lived and fought with him, the
Englishman appears to be distant, reserved, a slow thinker, and
lacking in humor, but from my association with the man who inhabits
the British Isles.
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