The "Sinister Shock of War"

in The Chicago Daily Tribune (Chicago, IL, USA) (May 16, 1915): (Page imagery not yet available)

First serialized as The Shock of War. Through Germany to Cracow in The Daily News & Leader (London, UK) (Mar 29, 1915)
Subsequently serialized as To Poland in War-Time. A Journey into the Past in The Daily News & Leader (London, UK) (Mar 31, 1915)
Subsequently serialized as To Poland, through Germany, as the War Broke Out in The Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA, USA) (Apr 3, 1915)
Subsequently serialized as Poland Revisited: The North Sea on the Eve of War in The Daily News & Leader (London, UK) (Apr 6, 1915)
Subsequently serialized as My Return to Cracow. Poland in War-Time in The Daily News & Leader (London, UK) (Apr 9, 1915)
Subsequently extracted as Joseph Conrad's Visit to War-Time Poland in The Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA, USA) (Apr 10, 1915)
Subsequently serialized as End of Joseph Conrad's 'War-Time Poland' in The Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA, USA) (Apr 17, 1915)
Collected as Poland Revisited in Notes on Life and Letters (1921)
Subsequently serialized as Retour en Pologne in La Revue de France (Paris, France) (Feb 1936 — Mar 1936)

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