Excerpt from July and August of 1914 It is many months after our return from Europe that we decide to print this book. The diary, for such it is, was merely putting down day by day our impressions of places and events and seems of very small importance for printing. The summer of the great war, however, was an epoch making period. We were witnesses near at hand of its ou coming and it is our desire to leave for our children and a few dear friends the picture of those months as they appeared to us. It should be remembered that references to the war are as they were made at the time, merely jottings from news paper accounts as they came to us then. Mistakes in dates are largely due to the strict censorship, which allowed news of many happenings to come through only after long inter vals from the actual occurrence. In the hurry of newspaper make-up many names were undoubtedly misspelled. We took them down as they were, dates and names, and as they were we let them stand here. 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.