Frederic William Wile’s The Assault records the observations of an American correspondent in Germany before the outbreak of the First World War and in England during the conflict. Wile reported from Berlin and witnessed the gathering crisis at close range.
The book offers a journalist’s firsthand impressions of the mood in both countries as Europe went to war. It is a valuable record of wartime reporting and the perspective of a foreign correspondent. This edition is a clean, public-domain text prepared for comfortable reading. Download the free EPUB of this eyewitness account of the war’s outbreak.