# Attack: An Infantry Subaltern's Impression of July 1st, 1916

Author: Liveing, Edward G. D. (Edward George Downing), 1895-1963; Masefield, John, 1878-1967 [Commentator]

Genre: World War I

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28145

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## Summary

The roads were packed with traffic. Column after column of lorries came pounding along, bearing their freight of shells, trench-mortar bombs, wire, stakes, sandbags, pipes, and a thousand other articles essential for the offensive, so that great dumps of explosives and other material arose in the green wayside places. Staff cars and signallers on motor-bikes went busily on their way. Ambulances hurried backwards and forwards between the line and the Casualty Clearing Station, for the days of June were hard days for the infantry who dug the "leaping-off" trenches, and manned them afterwards through rain and raid and bombardment. Horse transport and new batteries hurried to their destinatio...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/attack-an-infantry-subaltern-s-impression-of-july-1st-1916-28145/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/attack-an-infantry-subaltern-s-impression-of-july-1st-1916-28145/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/attack-an-infantry-subaltern-s-impression-of-july-1st-1916-28145/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/attack-an-infantry-subaltern-s-impression-of-july-1st-1916-28145/chapters/1/index.md)