The British Campaign in France and Flanders, 1917

Vast preparations--Attack of Snow's Seventh Corps--The Ibex Trench--Attack of Haldane's Sixth Corps--Attack of Fergusson's Seventeenth Corps--A Scottish Front--The splendid Cana...

Second phase of battle on November 30--Great German attack--Disaster to three divisions--Desperate fight of Twenty-ninth Division--Fine advance by the Guards--Capture and recapt...

First phase, November 20--Tanks _en masse_--Attack on the Tunnel Trench--Byng's great advance--Fine work of Braithwaite's Sixty-second Division--Hard fighting of Pulteney's Thir...

Upon April 16 the great French offensive had broken out upon the Aisne, directed against the line of Chalk Downs which the British had learned to know so well in 1914, and aimin...

It had been accepted as an axiom at this stage of the war that no great operation could be in the nature of a surprise--an axiom which, like most other axioms, was shown later i...

Attack of October 4--Further advance of the British line--Splendid advance of second-line Territorials--Good work of H.A.C. at Reutel--Abortive action of October 12--Action of O...

The attack of August 16, with its varying and not wholly satisfactory results, had been carried out entirely by the armies of Antoine and of Gough. It was clear now to Sir Dougl...

The Battle of Messines was so complete and clean-cut within its pre-ordained limitations that it left few readjustments to be effected afterwards. Of these, the most important w...

From the evening of July 31 till that of August 1, there were intermittent and sporadic German attacks along the whole of the new line, which were the more dangerous as the wret...

In the latter days of 1916 and the beginning of 1917, the British Army, which had in little more than two years expanded from seven divisions to over fifty, took over an increas...

Plumer's long vigil--The great mines--Advance of Australians--Of New Zealanders--Of the Twenty-fifth Division--Of the Irish Divisions--Death of Major Redmond--Advance of Ninetee...

flannel so as to keep the mud out, and with special cleaning apparatus in our pockets, but you can't clean a rifle when your own hands are covered an inch thick! We killed a gre...

Second phase of battle on November 30--Great German attack--Disaster to three divisions--Desperate fight of Twenty-ninth Division--Fine advance by the Guards--Capture and recapt...

Attack of October 4--Further advance of the British line--Splendid advance of second-line Territorials--Good work of H.A.C. at Reutel--Abortive action of October 12--Action of O...

Vast preparations--Attack of Snow's Seventh Corps--The Ibex Trench--Attack of Haldane's Sixth Corps--Attack of Fergusson's Seventeenth Corps--A Scottish Front--The splendid Cana...

First phase, November 20--Tanks _en masse_--Attack on the Tunnel Trench--Byng's great advance--Fine work of the Sixty-second Division--Hard fighting of Pulteney's Third Corps--E...

Engagement of Plumer's Second Army--Attack of September 20--Fine advance of Fifty-fifth Division--Advance of the Ninth {ix} Division--Of the Australians--Strong counter-attack u...

Plumer's long vigil--The great mines--Advance of Australians--Of New Zealanders--Of the Twenty-fifth Division--Of the Irish {viii} Divisions--Death of Major Redmond--Advance of...