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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Plates
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: ‘England had indeed been unprepared!’
Chapter 2: ‘It was my first taste of any real sort of war atmosphere’
Chapter 3: ‘There’s a tremendous din going on, like a huge thunder storm, as there’s just now an artillery duel over our heads’
Chapter 4: ‘The parapets and parados here were thick with dead bodies’
Chapter 5: ‘It was a roaring, raging, swirl of destruction’
Chapter 6: ‘Hour after hour the tempest raged as huge shells tore the earth up’
Chapter 7: ‘I know a little more about chemistry now’
Chapter 8: ‘The continuous angry flash looked very ominous’
Chapter 9: ‘Then the downpour of steel started, a veritable drum-fire, almost blotting everything out’
Chapter 10: ‘There is a German sniper over there who has just parted my hair for me’
Chapter 11: ‘I scrambled back through the wire, tearing my clothes and my hands, hearing bullets whizzing past me’
Chapter 12: ‘Fancy being shot at like this in England!’
Chapter 13: ‘Brother Boche has had a bad time all round,’
Chapter 14: ‘There were several cases of men being missed in the dark by their comrades, and actually drowned in the mud’
Chapter 15: ‘Nothing daunted we moved on, men dropping faster here and there and the gaps being filled up from those behind,’
Chapter 16: ‘I am also beginning to feel the effects of this war especially in the dark, when a gun fires not very far away or a sniper skims the parapet’
Chapter 17: ‘We were a very cheery and happy crowd together and dances were arranged for us about once a week’
Chapter 18: ‘What an awful night to die on!’
Chapter 19: ‘It is stifling hot & the mosquitoes are simply awful, millions of them & my arms & neck are puffing out with huge bites’
Conclusion
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