Show Fighting c New Ner Yorkers Subject of Book Many Jan runny many years wit wil be required to write the history of the tho great war Tho The final stor story will be bc written from the of ot- ot information which is just now being Ing issued Until recently th there r has been too much lunch of or a stir among writers to get gel to the market first to bother much muel with the facts But each month Is bringing InS out more and more official I information n forma t Ion One of tho the latest books to appear and which falls fails in the official class is that of W r. Kerr entitled From Upton to tile the Meuse With the Three Hundred and Sc eneth It Is the authentic stor story of the Three Hundred and Seventh infantry tol told b by the regiments regiment's official historian and hl based ed upon material drawn rawn both from Crom actual personal experience and from the official reports of the Three Hundred and Seventh Se rp regiment an and of or the Se Sev ent seventh enty-seventh se division which were put at tho the authors author's disposal The book tells o of a 1 division recruited chien chiefly from New York Cit City a division l which the military critics thought would woul make pretty prelly poor fighting hUng stuff sturt hut but which when the test came In the tile frightful Meuse onno battle battlo did hl much moro more than its part in forcing forcing- tho the Germans to toa a admit mit their defeat The fhe author gives the authentic story of ot the tile forces un under er Whittlesey which have havo gone gono down to lo history as the lost battalion but I which he describes as the surrounded I battalion When this battalion was I lost Captain Rainsford Went to its rescue and was se severely wounded Throughout the war oar the tile author was a 1 member of tho tile Seventy seventh division divi hl sion slon was In all the big fights on the tile Lorraine front on tho the Vosie at nl etc and Is thoroughly qualified In every wa way to write th the tho complete true truo story of or thIs tills gallant regiment D. D Appleton Ap- Ap p pIcton Co New Kew York |