Seven hundred of our boys were surrounded by thousands of Huns. For thirty-six hours they had had no food. Death seemed inevitable.
In answer to the enemy's messenger with an offer to spare them if they would surrender, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Whittlesey roared his historic
"Go to Hell!"-which was at once "refusal, malediction and prophecy.'

IN THE WORLD WAR

A History Of The Full Greatness
Of Our Country's Achievements

THE RECORD OF THE MOBILIZATION
AND TRIUMPH OF THE MILITARY,
NAVAL, INDUSTRIAL AND CIVILIAN
RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES

BY

RICHARD J. BEAMISH and FRANCIS A. MARCH, Ph.D.

Introduction

By GENERAL JOHN J. PERSHING
Commander-in-Chief American Expeditionary Forces

Illustrated with

Official Photographs

THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY, PUBLISHERS

PHILADELPHIA PA.

CHICAGO, ILL.