Excerpt from A Woman's Experiences in the Great War All the same, in spite of the dear old salt, I feel rather creepy as the boat starts off that hot summer night, and through the pitch-black darkness we begin to plough our way to Ostend. Over the dark waters the old English battleships send their vivid flashes unceasingly, but it is not a Comfortable feeling to think you may be blown up at any minute, and I Spend the hours on deck.' I notice our little fair-bearded Belgian captain is looking very sad and dejected. 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.