Contents

PROLOGUE Armistice Day 1918

PART IWINTER: JUBILATION AND HOPE


CHAPTER 1 Gods of War and Peace

CHAPTER 2 Spies Are Everywhere

CHAPTER 3 Christmas at Villa Lewaro

CHAPTER 4 Women and Molasses

CHAPTER 5 The List

CHAPTER 6 A Mere Slip of a Girl

CHAPTER 7 Polar Bears in Peril

CHAPTER 8 Sergeant Henry Johnson

CHAPTER 9 Trotter and the Passports

CHAPTER 10 The Magisterial Wand

CHAPTER 11 Blinders

CHAPTER 12 Shuffleboard

CHAPTER 13 In Like a Lion

CHAPTER 14 Out Like a Lion

PART IISPRING: FEAR


CHAPTER 15 Inner Light

CHAPTER 16 Make-Believe Riots and Real Bombs

CHAPTER 17 It’s in the Mail

CHAPTER 18 Monsieur Trotter

CHAPTER 19 302 Seconds in May

CHAPTER 20 What Happened on R Street

CHAPTER 21 War of a Different Sort

CHAPTER 22 Thrilling Feats

PART IIISUMMER: PASSION

CHAPTER 23 Missichusetts

CHAPTER 24 Paris

CHAPTER 25 Independence Day 1919

CHAPTER 26 The Narrow Path

CHAPTER 27 Miss Puffer Insane?

CHAPTER 28 That Certain Point

CHAPTER 29 Weapons in Their Hats

CHAPTER 30 King of the Index

CHAPTER 31 “I’ll Stay With You, Mary”

PART IVAUTUMN: STRUGGLE

CHAPTER 32 “The Right to Happiness”

CHAPTER 33 Tugs-of-War and of the Heart

CHAPTER 34 Autumn Leaflets

CHAPTER 35 Not Exactly Paradise

CHAPTER 36 Albert in Wonderland

CHAPTER 37 Greatness

CHAPTER 38 Armistice Day 1919

CHAPTER 39 Falling Ladders

CHAPTER 40 All Aboard

CHAPTER 41 Boughs of Glory

EPILOGUE Endings and Beginnings


Notes on Sources

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index