Contents

      Title

      Dedication

      Acknowledgements

      Eton Glossary

      Introduction

  1  ‘God Grant I May Be Old Enough’

  2  ‘The Faces of Souls in Hell’

  3   ‘Shrapnel Monday’

  4  ‘Our Little Band of Brothers’

  5  ‘God Won’t Let Those Devils Win’

  6  ‘To Die Would Be an Awfully Big Adventure’

  7  ‘The New Argonauts’

  8  ‘I Feel an Outcast to Be Alive’

  9  ‘Till Berlin’

10  ‘Pitifully Humorous in its Imbecility’

11  ‘We Had Not Been Taught to Surrender’

12  ‘To Hugh or Blighty’

13  ‘The Metal Is Gold and Tried in the Fire’

14  ‘The Gambler’s Throw’

15  ‘The Abomination of Desolation’

16  ‘I Long to Fly’

17  ‘Am I Going to Die?’

18  Setting the Tone

19  ‘HELL’

20  ‘Shaking the Faith’

21  ‘Every Shot Is Telling’

22  ‘The Light that Failed’

23  ‘Folded in the Dark Cloud of Death’

      Sources

      Plates

      Copyright