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[book cover: An American in the Russian Fighting, 1918]

BY
MALCOLM C. GROW
Formerly Lieut.-Colonel Imperial Russian Army Medical Corps

NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
1918

CONTENTS

FW

FOREWARD

 I

 I GO TO RUSSIA

II

TWO WEEKS OF SIGHT-SEEING

III

THE HUSSARS HOSPITAL AT TSARSKOESELO

IV

PREPARING TO GO TO THE FRONT

V

OFF TO THE FRONT

VI

THE SPECTACLE IN THE FROZEN LAKE

VII

THE PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS

VIII

IN THE RUSSIAN TRENCHES

IX

I GO "OVER THE TOP"

X

I MEET THE CZAR

XI

OVER THE GERMAN LINES

XII

THROUGH A SHOWER OF SHELLS

XIII

THE BATTLE OF POSTOVY

XIV

THE DOGS OF WAR

XV

SOUND SLEEPERS

XVI

INJURED BY A SHELL

XVII

THE MEDAL OF ST. GEORGE

XVIII

A DEMONSTRATION ATTACK

XIX

WE JOIN BRUSILOFF'S BIG DRIVE

XX

THE BATTLE OF THE STOCKHOD

XXI

WE BREAK THROUGH!

XXII

A BLIND ARMY

XXIII

THE GAS ATTACK

XXIV

THE REVOLUTION

XXV

AFTER THE REVOLUTION
ILLUSTRATIONS

1

Surgeon Grow in a Russian trench

2

Russian troops on their way south to help in Brusiloffs big drive talk with wounded men returning from the fighting

3

Wounded men waiting to be loaded onto the cattle trucks that served as evacuation trains

4

German officers of a regiment of Prussian guards

5

Battle flag of the captured regiment of Prussian guards

6

White gowns were worn by the Russian troops as a camouflage when raiding the German trenches through the wastes of snow

7

One of the first women soldiers

8

Abandoned car of Prince Eitel Friedrich of Germany, being hauled out of the mud by Cossacks who captured it

9

Mid-day during the winter on the Northern front

10

Machine guns mounted on revolving stand for use against enemy aeroplanes

11

German albatross-type aeroplane shot down by the Russian anti-aircraft guns

12

Wounded men arriving in the crude two-wheeled ambulance, the best conveyance known on the Russian front.

13

Surgeon Grow at the battle of Postovy, loading wounded into a little two-wheeled cart which served as ambulance

14

Sanitary dogs, or dogs of war

15

This dog has located a wounded man and is taking his hat as identification and means of bringing aid

16

A dressing station back of the lines at the battle of Postovy

17

Seriously wounded soldier being carried in by stretcher bearers during the demonstration attack

18

Streams of wounded soldiers barely able to walk, reeled along like drunken men through semi-darkness headed for our dressing station..

19

A dressing station during the battle of Stockhod

20

Type of two-wheeled springless cart that served as ambulance on the Russian front

21

Cossacks charging into a burning village to clean out the Austro-Germans, during the battle of Stockhod

22

"I know that had we not recovered his body I should have been haunted all my life by the vision of that dangling form on the barbed wire.

23

Orderly who rescued a wounded man who lay for five days under the German barbed wire

24

Shot through the lung, this wounded Russian soldier lay for five days under the German barbed wire not 40 feet from their trenches

25

The dead laid in rows after the gas attack

26

Large bomb-proof used as a dressing station and small bombproof in foreground where the author lived during the winter of 1916-1917

27

Burial of the dead after the gas attack


Foreword


Dr. M. Geoffrey Miller, Medical Front WWI original author. Site maintained by George Laughead Jr., manager, WWW-VL: United States History and WWW-VL: Military History.
Thanks to Lynn H. Nelson, founder of the Kansas Heritage Group.Updated: 14 May 2006.