CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
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 PozièresFrontispiece
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.)