Canada in Flanders, Volume III

CANADA IN FLANDERS
By MAJOR CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS
THE OFFICIAL STORY OF THE CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
VOLUME III
By Major Charles G. D. Roberts
VOLUME III
WITH A PREFACE BY LORD BEAVERBROOK
HODDER AND STOUGHTON LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO MCMXVIII
PREFACE
In writing this preface to Vol. III of Canada in Flanders I am saying good-bye to my task as author of the first two volumes. The increasing pressure of other duties has made it impossible for me to pay those prolonged visits to the Front which alone keep a writer in vivid touch with the constantly developing realities of modern war, or to spare the time for the proper study of the historical material. Under these circumstances it seemed better to retain the Editorship of Canada in Flanders, but to hand over the story of the Somme to the practised pen of Major Charles G. D. Roberts, who was present with the Canadian Corps during that Autumn Campaign.
But in doing this it is necessary to make good as far as possible the errors and slips which have come to light and been pointed out by the critics in the text of Vol. II.