[CHAPTER IV]

THE SECOND BATTLE OF THE SOMME

Attack on the Fifth Army. March 21

The Fifth Army front—The story of a Redoubt—Attack upon Congreve's Seventh Corps—Upon Watts' Nineteenth Corps—Upon Maxse's Eighteenth Corps—Upon Butler's Third Corps—Terrific pressure—Beginning of the Retreat—Losses of Guns

[CHAPTER V]

THE SECOND BATTLE OF THE SOMME

Retreat of the Seventh and Nineteenth Corps

Problems before General Gough—His masterful action—Arrival of Thirty-ninth, Twentieth, and Fiftieth Divisions—Retreat of Tudor's Ninth Scottish Division—Destruction of the South Africans—Defence of the Somme—Arrival of the Eighth Division—Desperate fighting—The Carey line—Death of General Feetham—"Immer fest daran"—Advance, Australia—Great achievement of General Watts

[CHAPTER VI]