THOMAS NELSON AND SONS, Ltd.

LONDON, EDINBURGH, PARIS, AND NEW YORK
1916

"O hearts ever youthful, like schoolboys at play, So be it with you in the thick of the fray; In the crash and the smoke and the roar of the fight, Be it yours, if it need be, to die for the Right! While deep in your heart a quick prayer shall arise To Him who looks down on the earth from the skies, For those whom you love in a faraway Home— O! shield them, our Father, whatever may come!"

I. Gregory Smith.

(By permission of "The Times.")

CONTENTS.

I.[A Glance Backwards]1
II.[Some German Theories of War]17
III.[From Arras to Armentières]27
IV.[From Lille to Nieuport]33
V.[Maud'huy at Arras, and the Retreat from Antwerp]43
VI.[With Rawlinson in Belgium]49
VII.[The Long, Thin Line of Steel and Valour]54
VIII.[The Work of the Third British Corps]65
IX.[Stirring Stories of Anxious Days]70
X.[With the Second Corps]78
XI.[The Indians in the Trenches]81
XII.[Fire and Flood]87
XIII.[Eight Days of Struggle and Anxiety]97
XIV.[Tales of Heroes]113
XV.[The Crisis of the First Battle of Ypres]129
XVI.[The Price of Victory and the Passing of a Hero]145
XVII.[Tales from the Trenches]154
XVIII.[More Tales from the Trenches]161
XIX.[Germany's Colonial Empire]171
XX.[Germany's Vanishing Colonies]177
XXI.[The Story of the "Emden"]187
XXII.[The Last of the "Emden," and the Sea Fight off Coronel]193
XXIII.[The Fall of Kiao-chau]209
XXIV.[The First Attack on Warsaw]218
XXV.[Von Hindenburg foiled]225
XXVI.[Stories from the Battlefields]231
XXVII.[The Second Russian Advance on Cracow]241
XXVIII.[The Second Assault on Warsaw]252
XXIX.[Warsaw again saved]257
XXX.[At War with Turkey]264
XXXI.[Fighting in Chaldea]273
XXXII.[The Campaign in the Caucasus]278
XXXIII.[The Battle of the Serbian Ridges]284
XXXIV.[The Battle off the Falkland Islands]289
XXXV.[Naval Raids on the East Coast of England]297
XXXVI.[Winter in the Trenches]305

CHAPTER I.