Daily Mail.—“It is a book to read.”
Field.—“This book is in its way unique.”
Punch.—“Nothing so absolutely absorbing and so awful as The Great Push has in the way of War literature crossed my path since August, 1914.... My advice to you, if War’s iron has not yet entered into your soul, is to read this book at once. The rest had better read it too.”
HERBERT JENKINS, LTD., 3 York Street, St. James’s, S.W. 1.
the AMATEUR ARMY
Experiences of a Soldier in the Making. By PATRICK MACGILL. Author of “Children of the Dead End.” “The Rat-Pit.” With Portrait. Crown 8vo. 1/6 net. Inland Postage 3d. extra.
FIRST REVIEWS
| Pall Mall Gazette. | “An attractive little volume.” |
| Graphic. | “The author’s gripping style and Irish wit make a most readable narrative.” |
| Mr. St. J. Adcock in Everyman. | “The best, vividest, and most entertaining account I have read of the experiences of a soldier in the making.” |
| Daily Telegraph. | “Gives many vivid pictures of the incidents and humours attending the transformation of a citizen into a soldier.” |
| Bystander. | “His chapters are interesting and valuable because you know they are true, and the whole book is very well done.” |
| Evening Standard. | “Bristling with humour.... It is just the book we should have expected from Mr. MacGill’s easy mastery of realism.” |
| Observer. | “The man who gave us Children of the Dead End could hardly fail to interest us in a life so strange.... It is continuously interesting.” |
| Globe. | “Mr. MacGill has a facile pen, and no little humour ... this book will be of incalculable use to the young and inexperienced soldier. It will give him many a hearty laugh and will introduce him to some finely-drawn camp characters.” |