Excerpt from With the Doughboy in France: A Few Chapters of an American Effort<br><br>To attempt to write a history, that should be at all ade quate as complete history, Of a great effort which was still in progress, as the writing went forward, would have been a lamentable task indeed. SO this book makes no pose as history; it simply aims to be a picture, or a series of pic tures of America in a big job, the pictures made from the standpoint of a witnesser of her largest humanitarian ci fort the work of the American Red Cross.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.