From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917

The battle which all the world has been expecting has begun. After weeks of intense bombardment, not on our side only, causing, as we know, grave alarm throughout Germany and an...

To-day at dawn our armies began a battle which, if Fate has any kindness for the world, may be the beginning of the last great battles of the war. Our troops attacked on a wide...

After the battle of Arras and all that fierce fighting which for two months has followed the capture of Vimy and the breaking of the Hindenburg line, and the taking of many vill...

Last New Year's Eve--the end of a year which had been full of menace for our fighting men, because, at the beginning, our lines had no great power of guns behind them, and full...

For several days now I have been going with our advancing troops into towns, villages, and country abandoned by the enemy in his retreat. It has been a strange adventure, fantas...

I. BREAKING THE SALIENT 195 II. FROM PILKEM RIDGE TO HOLLEBEKE 201 III. THE BEGINNING OF THE RAINS 206 IV. PILL-BOXES AND MACHINE-GUNS 211 V. THE SONG OF THE COCKCHAFERS 221 VI....

I. ARRAS AND THE VIMY RIDGE 87 II. LONDONERS THROUGH THE GERMAN LINES 96 III. THE STRUGGLE ROUND MONCHY 99 IV. THE OTHER SIDE OF VIMY 108 V. THE WAY TO LENS 113 VI. THE SLAUGHTE...

I. A NEW YEAR OF WAR 23 II. AN ATTACK NEAR LE TRANSLOY 28 III. THE ABANDONMENT OF GRANDCOURT 31 IV. THE GORDONS IN THE BUTTE DE WARLENCOURT 33 V. THE BATTLE OF BOOM RAVINE 36 VI...

I. WYTSCHAETE AND MESSINES 152 II. THE SPIRIT OF VICTORY 159 III. AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE 164 IV. THE EFFECT OF THE BLOW 172 V. LOOKING BACKWARD 176 VI. THE AUSTRALIANS AT MESSINES...

I. THE MAKING OF NO MAN'S LAND 60 II. THE LETTER OF THE LAW 63 III. THE ABANDONED COUNTRY 66 IV. THE CURE OF VOYENNES 70 V. THE CHATEAU OF LIANCOURT 73 VI. THE OLD WOMEN OF TINC...