CHAPTER IX

THE ARMISTICE

The New Position--Battle of the Canal du Nord--German Resistance Broken--Aubigny-au-Bac--The Allied Advance--Reorganisation--Open Fighting--Battle of the Sambre--Demolition of Roads-- Intercommunication--The Grand Honnelle--Enemy Confusion--The “Cease Fire” pp. 281-314

APPENDIX pp. 315-326

INDEX pp. 327-331

Special thanks are due to Messrs. Hutchinson & Co., publishers of _My War Memories 1914-1918_, by Gen. Ludendorff, and _General Headquarters 1914-1916, and Its Critical Decisions_, by Gen. von Falkenhayn; also to Messrs. Cassell & Co., publishers of _Out of My Life_, by Field-Marshal von Hindenburg, for permission to print extracts from these works.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

MAJOR-GENERAL SIR AMYATT HULL, K.C.B. _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE GOMMECOURT, JULY 1916 46

INVERNESS COPSE AND GLENCORSE WOOD, AUGUST 1917 152

BATTERY POSITION, ZOUAVE WOOD, HOOGE, AUGUST 1917 164

MAPS

1. THE GOMMECOURT SALIENT 46

2. GINCHY AND MORVAL--THE BATTLES ON THE 9TH, 15TH, AND 25TH SEPTEMBER 78

3. THE TRANSLOY RIDGE 86

4. THE BATTLES OF ARRAS, 1917 134

5. THE BATTLE OF LANGEMARCK, 1917 158

6. LOCAL MAP--FRONT OF THE DIVISION AT CAMBRAI, 1917 186

7. THE BATTLE OF CAMBRAI 196

8. THE FIRST BATTLE OF ARRAS, 1918 234

9. THE BATTLES OF ALBERT AND THE SCARPE, 1918 278

10. BATTLE OF THE CANAL DU NORD 296

11. GENERAL MAP 310

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