The British Campaign in France and Flanders, 1914

by Arthur Conan Doyle

THE BRITISH CAMPAIGN
IN FRANCE AND FLANDERS
1914

BY

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

AUTHOR OF
"THE GREAT BOER WAR," ETC.

SECOND EDITION

HODDER AND STOUGHTON
LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO
MCMXVI

TO
GENERAL SIR WILLIAM ROBERTSON
THIS CHRONICLE OF THE GREAT WAR
IN WHICH HE RENDERED
SUCH INVALUABLE SERVICE TO HIS COUNTRY
IS
DEDICATED

PREFACE

It is continually stated that it is impossible to bring out at the present time any accurate history of the war. No doubt this is true so far as some points of the larger strategy are concerned, for the motives at the back of them have not yet been cleared up. It is true also as regards many incidents which have exercised the minds of statesmen and of many possibilities which have worried the soldiers. But so far as the actual early events of our own campaign upon the Continent are concerned there is no reason why the approximate truth should not now be collected and set forth. I believe that the narrative in this volume will in the main stand the test of time, and that the changes of the future will consist of additions rather than of alterations or subtractions.