CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| Preface | [vii] | |
| 1. | A Padre who said the Right Thing | [1] |
| 2. | To the Front | [7] |
| 3. | The First Impression—A Country with Eyes | [14] |
| 4. | The Road to Lille | [21] |
| 5. | The Differences | [28] |
| 6. | The Germans | [36] |
| 7. | The Planes | [43] |
| 8. | The Coming Struggle: Our Task | [49] |
| 9. | In a Forest of France | [57] |
| 10. | Identified | [64] |
| 11. | The Great Battle Begins | [71] |
| 12. | The British—Fricourt and La Boiselle | [77] |
| 13. | The Dug-outs of Fricourt | [86] |
| 14. | The Raid | [92] |
| 15. | Pozières | [101] |
| 16. | An Abysm of Desolation | [111] |
| 17. | Pozières Ridge | [116] |
| 18. | The Green Country | [123] |
| 19. | Trommelfeuer | [127] |
| 20. | The New Fighting | [136] |
| 21. | Angels' Work | [143] |
| 22. | Our Neighbour | [151] |
| 23. | Mouquet Farm | [157] |
| 24. | How the Australians were Relieved | [168] |
| 25. | On Leave to a New England | [175] |
| 26. | The New Entry | [181] |
| 27. | A Hard Time | [189] |
| 28. | The Winter of 1916 | [197] |
| 29. | As in the World's Dawn | [203] |
| 30. | The Grass Bank | [209] |
| 31. | In the Mud of Le Barque | [218] |
| 32. | The New Draft | [223] |
| 33. | Why He is not "The Anzac" | [229] |
LIST OF PLATES
| Australians Watching the Bombardment of Pozières | Frontispiece |
| FACING PAGE | |
| Sketch Map | [1] |
| "Talking with the Kiddies in the Street" | [12] |
| "An Occasional Broken Tree-Trunk" | [16] |
| No Man's Land | [16] |
| Along the Road to Lille | [26] |
| The Trenches here have to be Built Above the Ground in Breastwork | [30] |
| A Main Street of Pozières | [112] |
| The Church Pozières | [112] |
| The Windmill of Pozières | [140] |
| The Barely Recognisable Remains of a Trench | [140] |
| The Tumbled Heap of Bricks and Timber which the World Knows as Mouquet Farm | [160] |
| "Past the Mud-Heaps Scraped by the Road Gangs" | [160] |
Rough sketch showing some of the German defences of Pozières and the direction of the Australian attacks between July 22 and September 4 1916. (From Pozières to Moquet Farm is just over a mile.)