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