Chapter V: Part TWO: The Nation Behind the Fighters

XXI. FINANCING THE WAR 173

XXII. THE BRIDGE OF BOATS 184

XXIII. ORGANIZING THE NATION 198

XXIV. INFORMING THE PUBLIC 206

XXV. WAR-TIME CONTROL OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY 220

XXVI. “THE GREATEST MOTHER IN THE WORLD” 228

XXVII. FEEDING THE NATIONS 236

XXVIII. THE MANAGEMENT OF FUEL 250

XXIX. THE SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE 260

XXX. LABOR AND THE WAR 273

XXXI. BIG-BROTHERING THE FIGHTING FORCES 283

XXXII. RUNNING THE RAILROADS 301

XXXIII. THE WORK OF WOMEN FOR THE WAR 311

XXXIV. FIGHTING THE UNDERGROUND ENEMY 327

XXXV. AT THE HEART OF THE NATION 338

ILLUSTRATIONS

Troop Transport Leaving New York for France _Frontispiece_

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Cantonment Three Months after Construction was Begun 16

Training a Machine Gun Company 16

Interior of a Cantonment Library 64

Dock in a French Port Developed by the United States 72

Mobile Kitchen Back of the Front Lines 88

An American Big Gun in France 88

Troop Ships Entering Brest 105

Mine Barrage across the North Sea 112

Naval Gun on Railway Mount 128

Airplane Ambulance 152

American Flying Field in France 152

A Shipyard in the Making 192

The Fifty Shipways of the Same Yard 192

Wounded Men in a Hospital Weaving Rugs 232

Unloading Wheat at a French Port 248

In a Red Triangle Hut in the Battle Zone 288

A Pleasant Evening in a Hostess House 296

Salvation Army Lassies at the Front 296

Woman’s Land Army Members Sorting Potatoes 312

Training Camp of Woman’s Land Army 312

View from Washington Monument, August, 1917 340

Same View One Year Later 340

WHAT AMERICA DID