The fifteen stories in this group tell of alcoholism at its miserable worst.

Many tried everything---hospitals, special treatments, sanitariums, asylums,

and jails. Nothing worked. Loneliness, great physical and mental

agony---these were the common lot. Most had taken shattering losses on

nearly every front of life. Some went on trying to live with alcohol. Others

wanted to die.

Alcoholism had respected nobody, neither rich nor poor, learned nor

unlettered. All found themselves headed for the same destruction, and it

seemed they could do nothing whatever to stop it.

Now sober for years, they tell us how they got well. They prove to almost

anyone's satisfaction that it's never too late to try Alcoholics Anonymous.